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Supreme Court Case on Prosecutorial Immunity Settles

By Steve Hall

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Tony Mauro writes, "Supreme Court Drops Undecided Prosecutorial Immunity Case After Parties Settle," for National Law Journal.The U.S. Supreme Court announced late Monday that it had dismissed an important pending case over prosecutorial immunity after being alerted that the dispute had been settled. The action stops in its tracks a case that could have produced a landmark decision that many believed would have reined in the longstanding tradition that prosecutors cannot be held liable for their actions as prosecutors. The case, Pottawattamie County v. McGhee and Harrington, was brought by Curtis McGhee Jr. and Terry Harrington, who had been found guilty in the 1977 murder of John Schweer, a retired police officer in Council Bluffs, Iowa...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).

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