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OCR: case, the prosecutor is immune from civil suit fOr dam ages undei S1983 discussion the Court assumed that without absolute immunity prosecutor could te liable action under S1983 challenging "his decision to initiate prosecution at 471 424 425 427 The Court observed: UTC DE sure, this immunity does leave genuinely wronged defendant without civil red reSS against prosecutor whose malicious dishon- est action deprives him of liberty The Imbier assumption was, of course, correct. Sec- tion 1983 provides remedy against those abuses state power that violate federal law Collins City Harker Heights, 112 S.Ct. 161 1065 (1992 long as the prosecution was undertaken unoer color aw and deprived the plaintiff of the constituti ional right to be trce from prosecution except on probable cause the clements ...