Is a district attorney immune from prosecution if a press release by the district attorney gives him immunity under the facts?

As to the press releases on this subject, we believe the district attorney's office gives him immunity under the facts. In White v. Brinkman, supra, 23 Cal.Ap.2d 307, 313, 73 P.2d 254, it was held that a district attorney was immune, who, allegedly having conspired with the city manager to injure plaintiff, maliciously caused his arrest on charges known by the district attorney to be false, and that the district attorney thereafter had dismissed the charges. This resembles, of course, the situation

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