Posted on 01/13/2007 4:17:44 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
Forgot sue the 88 as private citizens.
How did the alumni make this case fall apart?
You are right all judges,magistrates and officers of the court do have judicial immunity in NC. In my opionion should be overturned.
I have read of a court ruling (quite possibly from the Supreme Court) which held that prosecutors are not immune from suit in regard to actions that were not necessary in order to discharge their prosecutorial responsibilies--e.g. comments made in press interviews, since there is no need for a prosecutor to blab to the news media in order to prosecute a case.
Know anything about this?
If Nifong is disbarred, he won't necessarily go hungry...he might get hired to teach at Duke Law School (Richard Nixon is their most famous alumnus).
That's true... For example, if Nifong made libelous "ex-judicial" statements (out of court), then he could be subjected to civil suit.
But the "meat" of what Nifing has done wrong here, is in his conduct of the prosecution, the "prosecutorial" decisions he has made: And those are absolutely immune from civil suits.
Again...Not immune from criminal charges.
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