Jankowski v. Fulton County Medical Examiner

How later courts describe this case

• concluding that voluntary conversion of an involuntary joint petition to a chapter 11 case supplied the missing element of voluntariness and cured the jurisdictional defect
• stating “the district attorney, and the district attorney alone, should decide when and in what manner to prosecute a suspected offender”
• assistant district attorney mistakenly initiated grand jury indictment and filed it with the court which later dismissed it when mistake was discovered
• “When prosecuting a criminal matter, a district attorney in New York State, acting in a quasi-judicial capacity, represents the State not the county.”
• person indicted brought suit against prosecutor who prepared and presented the indictment; New York law authorized the prosecutor to take such actions, and prosecutor found absolutely immune