The head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Criminal Division acknowledged Thursday that some federal prosecutors lack the experience and supervision to properly determine whether to bring charges, saying there are cases “that get filed that shouldn’t be filed.”
“There are districts where oversight is not what it should be, the experience level is not what it should be,” said Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, speaking generally about U.S. attorneys’ offices during a Federalist Society debate over the limits of criminal law.
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