The Supreme Court will consider a New Orleans prosecutors' appeal of a $14 million judgment to a former death row inmate who accused them of withholding evidence to help convict him of murder.

At issue is whether the New Orleans district attorney's office can be held liable for the actions of prosecutors in the case of John Thompson. He spent 18 years in prison and once came within weeks of being executed before he was acquitted in a 2003 retrial in the killing of a hotel executive.

The district attorney's office does not contest that its prosecutors withheld a crime lab report favorable to Thompson. But prosecutors ordinarily may not be sued for their official actions.

Do you think that prosecutors should be held liable for deliberately withholding evidence favorable to the defendant?