HARMSTON v. KIRK

Docket No. A042627.

216 Cal.App.3d 1410 (1989)

265 Cal. Rptr. 548

LYNN D. HARMSTON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CHARLES R.B. KIRK, as Special Counsel, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Five.

December 29, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

A. Leonard Bjorklund, Jr., for Plaintiff and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Richard D. Martland, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Marvin Goldsmith, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald V. Thunen, Jr., and Brenda P. Reyes, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

LOW, P.J.

A deputy attorney general assigned to assist a grand jury in its investigation is immune from liability to any person wrongfully indicted or accused after the investigation.

Lynn D. Harmston, a Napa County (County) deputy sheriff, sued the County, the members of the County grand jury, Charles R.B. Kirk (a deputy attorney general who acted as special counsel to the grand jury), and the State of California...

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