◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Fred Hampton — Part 3

251 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Fred Hampton · 251 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
j , @ 54 Nos. 77-1698, 77-1210 & 77-1370 at 430 n. 81. See, eg. Guerro v. Mulhearn, 498 F.2d 1249, 1256 (1st Cir. 1974); Hampton v. City of Chicago, 484 F.2d 602, 608-09 (7th Cir. 1973); Robichaud v. Ronan, 351 F.2d 538, 536-37 (9th Cir. 1965). These cases clearly indicate that when a state prosecutor is perform- ing investigative rather than advocacy functions, he is not wrapped with absolute immunity.2° See Briggs, supra, 569 F.2d at 16-17. In Hampton I, supra, we’ examined the claim of: Hanrahan and Jalovec to absolute immunity for their pre-raid conduct. We concluded that their - alleged participation in the planning and execution of a raid of this character has no greater claim to complete immunity than activities of police officers allegedly acting under [their] direction. Hampton I, supra, 484 F.2d at 609. Neither Jmbler, supra, 424 U.S. at 480, nor our fuller consideration of the .issue aided by the evidence produced at trial alters that conclusion. More difficult questions are presented by the claims of the defendants from the State’s Attorney’s Office— Hanrahan, Jalovec, Meltreger, and Sorosky—to absolute immunity with respect to their post-raid conduct. Resolution of these claims requires a close analysis of the nature of the defendants’ activities. We hold that while some of their actions fall within the ambit of Imbler’s protection, others do not. Hanrahan’s decision to file charges against the sur- vivors of the raid, his presentation of evidence before the state grand jury, and his deal with Assistant Attorney General Leonard to drop the state charges all comprise part of his “quasi-judicial” duties as state prosecutor— “initiating a prosecution and .. . presenting the State’s case... .” Imbler, supra, 424 U.S. at 431; Butz, supra at 4962-68. Thus, Hanrahan and any Assistant State’s 30 Our recent decision in Daniels v. Kieser, 586 F.2d 64 (7th Cir. 1978), is not to the contrary. In Daniels we held that the prosecutor’s actions were within his “quasi-judicial” functions and, Prue reason, were absolutely immune from liability. ad, at 68-69.
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 59
Jump straight to page 59 of 251.
Reader
Fred Hampton — Part 04
Stay inside Fred Hampton with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
Fred Hampton Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the General archive hub and the more specific Fred Hampton topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
letter bureau
Related subtopics
John Murtha
57 documents · 1471 known pages
Subtopic
Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy
42 documents · 2653 known pages
Subtopic
D B Cooper
41 documents · 13789 known pages
Subtopic
Kansas City Massacre
38 documents · 5300 known pages
Subtopic
Black Panther Party
36 documents · 3066 known pages
Subtopic
Malcolm X
36 documents · 3932 known pages
Subtopic