Connick v. Thompson

You don't want prosecutors afraid to do their jobs, but the effects... is that even a prosecutor who knowingly hides exculpatory evidence generally cannot be sued.

The case that shows this most starkly is Connick v. Thompson, decided in 2011.

John Thompson spent 18 years in prison in Louisiana, 14 of them on death row.

After prosecutors in the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office concealed a blood test that would have cleared him of one of those charges.

Nationally, thousands of cases in which courts cited misconduct and discipline that is rare enough to be news.

Absolute immunity from civil suit.

And in Connick v. Thompson, the Supreme Court overturned a $14 million verdict for a man who spent 18 years in a Louisiana prison.

14 of those on death row because of withheld evidence in the Stroud case as far as I've been able to find the consequences fell on one party Glenn Ford lost nearly 30 years and his health Marty Stroud lost his peace of mind.