context: Prosecutors and witnesses both enjoy absolute immunity at common law.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 424 U.S. 409, 427
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that the considerations underlying absolute prosecutorial immunity at common law "dictate the same absolute immunity under SS 1983"
citation_a.sentence: See Briscoe v. LaHue, 460 U.S. 325, 103 S.Ct. 1108, 75 L.Ed.2d 96 (1983) (ruling that witnesses, including police officer-witnesses, are entitled to absolute immunity from § 1983 liability); Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409, 427, 96 S.Ct. 984, 47 L.Ed.2d 128 (1976) (holding that the considerations underlying absolute prosecutorial immunity at common law “dictate the same absolute immunity under § 1983”). Absolute immunity even applies to those who prosecute and appear as witnesses in the course of an adjudication before an administrative agency.
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.identifier: 438 U.S. 478, 515-17
citation_b.parenthetical: concluding that agency officials performing functions analogous to those of a prosecutor are entitled to absolute immunity with respect to such acts
citation_b.sentence: Cf. Butz v. Economou, 438 U.S. 478, 515-17, 98 S.Ct. 2894, 57 L.Ed.2d 895 (1978) (concluding that agency officials performing functions analogous to those of a prosecutor are entitled to absolute immunity with respect to such acts).