A California law that shields public employees from liability for injuries from malicious prosecution doesn’t extend to police misconduct during an investigation, the state’s high court ruled Thursday.
The decision reaffirms a 1974 California Supreme Court ruling that limited the reach of the immunity provision to actions for malicious prosecution.
Plaintiff Dora Leon filed the negligence action against the County of Riverside, alleging the police had a duty to cover her husband’s partially-naked body, which lay in the street for seven hours after he was murdered. The trial court and appeals court ruled that the county was immune because the ...
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