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171667P.pdf   06/06/2018  Mark Woodworth  v.  Kenneth Hulshof
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-1667
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - St. Joseph   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Colloton, Circuit Judge, and Holmes, 
   District Judge] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging special prosecutor and state 
   court judge conspired to deprive Woodsworth of his constitutional rights 
   during criminal proceedings related to a 1990 homicide, the district court 
   correctly determined that the prosecutor was entitled to absolute 
   prosecutorial immunity because the only supported instances of misconduct 
   occurred after he was appointed special prosecutor and were intimately 
   associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process; similarly, the 
   judge was entitled to absolute judicial immunity as any evidence of 
   alleged misconduct on his part related directly to his official role as a 
   judge.