Prosecutors, Perjurers, and Other Non-Persons — Part 2
Prosecutors, Perjurers, and Other Non-Persons — Part 2
Prosecutors, Perjurers, and Other Non-Persons — Part 2
In 1983, in the case of Briscoe v. LaHue, the Supreme Court ruled that government employees who commit perjury at trial are absolutely immune from civil liability. On Part 2 of Episode 10, we dig into the Court’s reasoning and the backstory behind Briscoe. We also discuss a special category of officials whom the Supreme Court has said are not entitled to absolute immunity, but to whom lower courts have granted immunity anyway.
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