Immunity for fabricated charges
Reguli v. Hetzel
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Connie L. Reguli and other petitioners ask the Supreme Court to review claims that state actors fabricated a crime by removing an essential element from a statute and that prosecutors prepared an indictment knowing the alleged conduct was not criminal.
- What's at stake
- The petitioners’ request for Supreme Court review remains unresolved, and the Court has not ruled on their claims.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
They also challenge a court’s use of unbriefed arguments and changes to pleaded facts when applying immunity.
The filing also challenges the lower court’s handling of pleaded facts and legal protection from lawsuits for prosecutors at an early stage of the case.
Question presented
1. If probable cause of criminal conduct is required, then this Court must determine the limitations of Fourth Amendment “reasonableness” when state actors fabricate a crime by knowingly and intentionally removing an essential element from the statutory language. 2. Whether prosecutorial immunity can protect prosecutors who intentionally prepare an indictment fabricating a crime by rewriting the statutory language and removing an essential element of the crime knowing that the citizen’s conduct does not rise to a criminal offense? 3. Whether, in a Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 12 review, the tribunal can sua sponte insert legal arguments not briefed, and alter the facts plead by the Plaintiffs to fashion absolute and qualified immunity while avoiding well-established case law and arguments made by the Plaintiff/Appellants sheering away Fourth Amendment rights for future litigants?
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear the petition. No argument or decision date is set.
Documents
Docket activity
New analysis added
AI analysis generated: Case Briefing
Case data updated: summary, question_presented, generation_metadata
Case data updated: question_presented, extraction_metadata
Brief added: Petition
Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.