jury to conclude that their testimony was part of a conspiracy. Finally, relying on White v. Frank, 855 F.2d 956 (2d Cir.1988) and Krohn v. United States, 742 F.2d 24 (1st Cir.1984), Cignetti claims that Gelinas, Fitzgerald and the other defendants do not have absolute immunity for their testimony because they are “complaining witnesses” who knowingly initiated a baseless prosecution. Prosecutors and witnesses both enjoy absolute immunity at common law. The enactment of § 1983 did not abrogate these common law immunities. See Briscoe v. LaHue, 460 U.S. 325, 103 S.Ct. 1108, 75 L.Ed.2d 96 (1983) (ruling that witnesses, including police officer-witnesses, are entitled to absolute immunity from § 1983 liability); Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409, 427, 96 S.Ct. 984, 47 L.Ed.2d 128 (1976) (<HOLDING>). Absolute immunity even applies to those who
holding that prosecutors have absolute immunity recognizing the availability of summary judgment based on absolute prosecutorial immunity holding that absolute prosecutorial immunity extends to civil forfeiture proceedings recognizing that absolute immunity is immunity from charges of either constitutional or statutory violations holding that the considerations underlying absolute prosecutorial immunity at common law dictate the same absolute immunity under  1983