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HILL v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 1664, Docket 93-9343.

45 F.3d 653 (1995)

Diane HILL, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF NEW YORK; Richard Dixon, individually and as Detective, New York City Housing Authority Police Department; Bruce Clark, individually and as Police Officer with New York City Housing Authority Police Department, Defendants, Richard Adago, individually and as Assistant District Attorney of New York County; Awilda Rialano, individually and as employee of the Child Abuse Bureau, District Attorney, New York County; Michael Mannion, individually and as supervisor of the Video Unit, District Attorney, New York County; Clayton Frazier, individually and as video technician, District Attorney, New York County, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 17, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Mudd, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York City (Mark Dwyer, Asst. Dist. Atty., Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Bruce A. Young, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, CARDAMONE and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this § 1983 civil rights litigation concerns the precise scope of a local district attorney's immunity from suit. Because a public prosecutor cannot zealously perform the prosecutorial duties of the office if compelled to work under the constant threat of legal reprisals, such official is shielded from liability for civil wrongs by the doctrine of absolute immunity. When this doctrine, necessary to preserve the integrity...

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