Savage v. State

Utter, J.*

This court granted review of a Court of Appeals decision reversing a trial court ruling barring the State from asserting the qualified immunity of its parole officer in a suit alleging negligent supervision of a parolee. The State cross-petitions the Court of Appeals’ conclusion the State was not entitled to instruct the jury that it could consider the State’s financial resources in deciding the reasonableness of the State’s actions.

We reverse the Court of Appeals’ holding that the qualified personal immunity of parole officers extends to the State; we affirm its conclusion that the…