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STATE (HAAS COMPLAINANT) v. ROLLINS

No. 86-393.

129 N.H. 684 (1987)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE (JOSEPH S. HAAS, JR., COMPLAINANT) v. JAMES H. ROLLINS & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

August 19, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Sanders Haas, Jr., of Ashland, orally, pro se, and as complainant.

John J. McCormack, of Ashland, for the defendants, filed no brief.

Stephen E. Merrill, attorney general (David S. Peck, assistant attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the State, as amicus curiae.

SOUTER, J.

The complainant in four privately instituted criminal actions, Joseph S. Haas, Jr., argues that the doctrine of absolute prosecutorial immunity should bar enforcement of an order entered against him by the Plymouth District Court (Kelly, J.), requiring him to pay attorney's fees to the successful defendants. We affirm.

[1] The common law of this State does not preclude the institution and prosecution of certain criminal complaints...

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