A rare admission of error from the U.S. Attorney’s Office has been followed by so-called “sweeping reforms” after the case of the “Broadview Six” blew up in a suburban court
U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros has announced his intent to undertake “sweeping reforms” to his embattled office in the wake of revelations his prosecutors made mistakes and tainted a grand jury in the high profile “Broadview Six” case.
Those charges have now been dropped as a result of those mistakes, but the fallout is far from over, with attorneys seeking more transparency and demanding consequences for the prosecution in the case.
Last week, Boutros issued a mea culpa in front of federal Judge April Perry, acknowledging his prosecutors made “mistakes” when they were trying to convince a grand jury to indict immigration protesters known as the “Broadview Six.”
Today, Boutros went a step further and said his office launched in internal probe and will institute sweeping reforms” to the way grand juries are handled.
“There must also be remediation, reforms, and process improvements to allow organizations to accept responsibility and make sure that the same mistakes don’t happen again,” Boutros said in a news release.
But the release only lists only vague reforms, like creating “unequivocal expectation” for grand jury disclosures, and expanded education for his prosecutors.
Last week federal court documents revealed prosecutors committed several errors to the grand jury, including “vouching” for the case, kicking out grand jurors who disagreed on bringing charges, and contacting grand jurors outside of court.
This week, “Broadview Six” defense attorney Chris Parente accused Boutros himself of having contact with the grand jury, a claim Boutros denied. Now, Parente said he doesn’t believe the problems are solved.
“This isn’t law school, this is the U.S. Attorney’s Office,”Parente said. “When you see the conduct that occurred in the grand jury, training isn’t going to help this. You don’t need training to know that what happened with that grand jury cannot happen ever.”
Even amid those criticisms, Boutros is seeking to put to rest concerns the public might have about whether federal prosecutors can be trusted when they bring an indictment.
“These are clear, bright line rules that everyone must abide by, which should streamline and simplify the decision-making and disclosure process, as opposed to bedevil it,” he said.
The newly-announced reforms come as an attorney on another federalcase, this one involving allegations that executives at Loretto Hospital committed fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic, seeks to dismiss charges based on the now admitted problems with the grand jury process.
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