Imbler v. Pachtman

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Imbler v. Pachtman

Argued November 3, 1975
Decided March 2, 1976

Full case name:	Paul Kern Imbler, Petitioner, v. Richard Pachtman, District Attorney.

Citations:	424 U.S. 409; 96 S.Ct. 984, 47 L.Ed.2d 128 (1976)

Holding

Court membership

Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens

Case opinions

Majority by: Powell
Joined by: Burger, Stewart, Blackmun, Rehnquist
Concurrence by: White
Stevens took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)^[1], was a United States Supreme Court case in which district attorneys or prosecutors were found to have full immunity from civil suits resulting from their government duties.

Imbler a defendant in a murder trial, had been convicted and sentenced when the District Attorney, Pachtman, revealed new evidence that he said had recently surfaced and that exonerated Imbler. Imbler used the new evidence to successfully free himself, then brought up a civil suit alleging that Pachman had withheld evidence. The suit, however, was dismissed on the grounds that Pachtman has prosecutorial immunity, a finding which the supreme court affirmed.