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The Supreme Court Should Scrap Prosecutors Absolute Immunity
In 1871 there was no prosecutorial absolute immunity the court has actually acknowledged that since it invented the immunity in 1976. The principal reason the court gave for creating absolute immunity for prosecutors just doesn't apply anymore. We're hopeful that the extraordinary facts of this case will persuade the court to either you know reaffirm and make sure that the common law exception for when a prosecutor is acting outside his authority is actually meaningful or scrap it all together.
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