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To: detective
-- Prosecutors can be criminally charged with perjury and other crimes. --

How Broad Is Prosecutorial Immunity? - SCOTUSblog

Yes, of course prosecutors can be charged with crimes. Murder, criminal recklessness when driving, DUI, and so on. They aren't kings or have diplomatic immunity.

But for thier JOB, then can DO as wrong as can be, they can commit perjury, they can lie, and for that they have absolute immunity.

In their brief on the merits, the prosecutors characterize the substantive due process claim raised by McGhee and Harrington as a "right not to be framed" "" a right, they emphasize, that the Court has never recognized.

Case was settled before SCOTUS decided.

58 posted on 05/18/2018 12:00:40 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

“But for thier JOB, then can DO as wrong as can be, they can commit perjury, they can lie, and for that they have absolute immunity.”

If that’s the case and judicial relief is impossible for victims of prosecutorial misconduct, then you’re laying the ground for anarchy and subsequent roaming death squads.


63 posted on 05/18/2018 5:01:47 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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