Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Ochoa-Ochoa v. United States
Ochoa-Ochoa v. United States, 488 U.S. 898 (1988)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1988-10-11
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- concluding that the federal prosecutor was absolutely immune for transmitting false information to parole authorities
- holding that absolute witness immunity applies to an adversarial pretrial suppression hearing
- prosecutors are entitled to absolute immunity for activities “‘intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process,’ ” which includes providing information to New York State parole authorities
- witness immunity applies to pretrial adversarial proceedings
Citator
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.