An assistant county district attorney may not be entitled to prosecutorial immunity for his role in the arrest, strip-searching and jailing of a man for what began as a speeding case, a federal judge has ruled.

Northern District Judge Lawrence Kahn denied a motion to dismiss Oneida County Assistant District Attorney Robert Bauer from the action filed by James Brown, who contends Bauer initiated the chain of events that led to Brown’s false arrest and malicious prosecution in 2013.

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