Falls v. Superior Court (1996) 42 Cal.App.4th 1031, established that a prosecutor is protected by quasi-judicial immunity, so long as the prosecutor's conduct "is an '"integral part of the judicial process"' or 'intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.' ." The prosecutor must be acting within his official capacity, and immunity would not apply to acts that fall outside of his or her official role. In Falls, the district attorney interviewed and called as a witness a young man who was later shot by a member of the gang he had testified against. The court concluded that because the prosecutor was acting in his official capacity in interviewing a witness and calling the witness to testify at trial, quasi-judicial immunity protected him from civil liability for the witness's death. (Id. at pp. 1043-1045.)