Legal Opinion
Ferri v. Ackerman
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 4, 1979No. 78-5981PublishedCited by 263 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
The question is whether an attorney appointed by a federal judge to represent an indigent defendant in a federal criminal trial is, as a matter of federal law, entitled to absolute immunity in a state malpractice suit brought against him by his former client.
On August 28, 1974, a federal grand jury for the Western District of Pennsylvania named petitioner as a defendant in five counts of a nine-count federal indictment alleging that he had participated in a 1971 conspiracy to construct and use a bomb in violation of various federal statutes. In due course, the District Court appointed…
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