Imbler v. Pachtman
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| Imbler v. Pachtman | ||||||
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 Supreme Court of the United States |
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| Argued November 3, 1975 Decided March 2, 1976 |
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| Full case name | Paul Kern Imbler, Petitioner, v. Richard Pachtman, District Attorney. | |||||
| Citations | 424 U.S. 409 (more) 96 S.Ct. 984, 47 L.Ed.2d 128 (1976) |
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| Majority | Powell, joined by Burger, Stewart, Blackmun, Rehnquist | |||||
| Concurrence | White | |||||
| Stevens took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | ||||||
Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)[1], was a United States Supreme Court case in which district attorneys or prosecutors were found to have full immunity from civil suits resulting from their government duties.
Imbler, a defendant in a murder trial, had been convicted and sentenced when the district attorney, Pachtman, revealed new evidence that he said had recently surfaced and which exonerated Imbler. Imbler used the new evidence to successfully free himself, then brought up a civil suit alleging that Pachtman had withheld evidence. The suit, however, was dismissed on the grounds that Pachtman had prosecutorial immunity, a finding which the Supreme Court affirmed.
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- ^ Imbler v. Pachtman at Findlaw.com Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.
- Imbler v. Pachtman at Public.Resource.org
- Brummet, D. (1979) Chi.-Kent L. Rev. Section 1983, Immunity, and the Public Defender: The Misapplication of Imbler v. Pachtman.
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