Court Opinion

ID: 9479932
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:33:08.238169+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:22.599431
License: Public Domain

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the judgment and opinion of the court. I write separately to stress the limited scope of the court’s holding. The court holds that a prosecutor enjoys absolute immunity with respect to legal advice given to law enforcement officers; it does not hold that such absolute immunity nec*957essarily extends to situations in which the prosecutor goes beyond rendering legal advice and assumes responsibility for the management of the investigation. The line between rendering legal advice and making policy decisions during an investigation is a relatively difficult one. See Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409, 431 n. 33, 96 S.Ct. 984, 995 n. 33, 47 L.Ed.2d 128 (1976). Here, however, the record supports the district court’s explicit conclusion that the prosecutor’s role was limited to rendering legal advice. On that basis, I join the judgment and opinion of the court.