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FRANKLIN v. TERR

No. 98-16843.

201 F.3d 1098 (2000)

George FRANKLIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lenore TERR, Jim Fox, Elaine Tipton, Martin Murray, Robert Morse, Bryan Cassandro, Sgt. John Cuneo, Kirk Barrett, Eileen Franklin-Lipsker, San Mateo County, and Does 1-100, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 2, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew C. Schwartz, Casper, Meadows, & Schwartz, Walnut Creek, California; Dennis P. Riordan and Dylan L. Schaffer, Riordan & Rosenthal, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Peter J. Zomber and David J. Ozeran, La Follette, Johnson, De Haas, Fesler & Ames, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Kirk Barrett.

Donald J. Putterman, Rachel Wagner, and Barry W. Strike, Sideman & Bancroft; San Francisco, California, and Jon B. Eisenberg, Horvitz & Levy, Encino, California, for defendant-appellee Lenore Terr.

Before: SNEED, PREGERSON and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

A witness has absolute immunity from liability for civil damages under § 1983 for giving perjured testimony at trial. See Briscoe v. LaHue, 460 U.S. 325, 326, 103 S.Ct. 1108, 75 L.Ed.2d 96 (1983). In this case of first impression, we must decide whether a witness also has absolute immunity from liability for civil damages under § 1983 for conspiring to present her own and another witness's...

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