violated Plaintiffs’ due process rights under the Fifth Amendment and their rights against excessive fines under the Eighth Amendment arising out of the forfeiture of and refusal to return Plaintiffs’ assets. These claims were properly dismissed under the doctrines of absolute prosecutorial and qualified immunity. Absolute prosecutorial immunity applies where a prosecutor’s activities are “intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.... ” Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409, 430, 96 S.Ct. 984, 47 L.Ed.2d 128 (1976). This Court has stated that prosecutorial immunity extends to proceedings where the prosecutor institutes a civil forfeiture proceeding. Cooper v. Parrish, 203 F.3d 937, 947 (6th Cir.2000); accord Schrob v. Catterson, 948 F.2d 1402, 1412 (3d Cir.1991) (<HOLDING>). Prosecutorial immunity shields a prosecutor
holding that the considerations underlying absolute prosecutorial immunity at common law dictate the same absolute immunity under  1983 holding discovery rules apply to civil forfeiture proceedings holding that absolute prosecutorial immunity extends to civil forfeiture proceedings recognizing the availability of summary judgment based on absolute prosecutorial immunity holding that exclusionary rule applies to civil forfeiture proceedings