Trump DOJ plagued by 'unprecedented errors' -- more than 1 out of 5 of its DC criminal cases are getting tossed
Source: msn/MEDIAite
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They say a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, but the criminal cases brought by the prosecutors at President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice are ending up toast with embarrassing frequency.
The axiom about a prosecutor’s apparent ease in convincing a grand jury to indict that proverbial sandwich highlights the slanted nature of the proceedings, with only a government prosecutor in the room and the defendants and defense counsel unable to participate in the process or submit evidence or witnesses for their side. And even after defendants are read the charges against them and are able to legally defend themselves, the government still often has the upper hand, with an essentially unlimited budget and scores of experienced prosecutors.
But the last few months of Trump’s DOJ have drastically leveled the playing field. Many legal commentators have chalked this up in large part to the numerous top DOJ officials and career prosecutors who were fired, encouraged to resign, retired, or quit.
From January to November, the DOJ has seen a “mass exodus” of “more than 2,900 attorneys — triple the number of those who left in each of the previous four years,” according to a report by Sarah N. Lynch at Reuters, a significant “loss of institutional knowledge” that is viewed as leading to “unprecedented errors.” Another contributing factor to the DOJ’s woes is clearly the types of cases the DOJ is choosing to take and the charges they’re filing.
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