A lawsuit accusing New Orleans prosecutors of issuing fake subpoenas could erode a decades-old doctrine shielding district attorneys from civil-rights litigation
For years prosecutors in Louisiana’s Orleans Parish served crime victims and witnesses with documents labeled “SUBPOENA,” stamped with an official seal. The documents warned of fines and imprisonment for those who didn’t comply.
The problem, prosecutors acknowledged in 2017, was that the documents weren’t court-ordered subpoenas, as they appeared, but were devised merely to compel witnesses to come in for questioning.
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