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Can prosecutors be sued for presenting false testimony? (access required)

Published: April 20, 2009

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether prosecutors can be civilly liable for a wrongful conviction and incarceration where they allegedly procured false testimony during a criminal investigation, and then introduced that testimony against the defendant at trial. The case stems from the 1979 convictions of two men for murdering a retired police department ...
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