Legal Opinion
Randall Curtis v. Brian Bembenek
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 23, 1995No. 92-3434PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal from the dismissal of a civil rights suit brought by a prisoner, the principal question before us is whether a police officer who gives allegedly perjurious testimony during a preliminary hearing and a pretrial suppression hearing is entitled to absolute witness immunity from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for damages caused by his testimony. We believe that a police officer who testifies in court at these adversarial pretrial hearings is absolutely immune from § 1983 liability, and we affirm.
BACKGROUND
Although the details of this case are sketchy, the…
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