A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit against a prosecutor brought by a college student whose online column irked a professor and led to an unlawful search of the student’s home.
Reversing a lower court, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that Susan Knox, now a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Denver, was not entitled to qualified immunity when as a deputy district attorney in Colorado she approved a search warrant of the student’s house.
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