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  • Wilson v. City of Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Younge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-2057

    Former assistant district attorney and district attorney moved to dismiss plaintiff's civil rights and tort claims, for his 28 years of imprisonment for murders he did not commit, based on coerced and fabricated witness's statements and court found ADA's alleged fabrication and coercion of witness statement implicating plaintiff was a "prosecutorial" activity that was absolutely protected under prosecutorial immunity and DA was immune from supervisory liability. Motion granted.