Veteran sex crimes prosecutors assigned to the task force will "work together to ensure a uniformed approach to the legal review and possible prosecution of any case," Lacey said in a statement at the time.
But some lawyers say Ms. Mauskopf would risk political fury and the resistance of career prosecutors if her first act as a United States attorney was to bar further prosecution of a volatile case that has been a priority of federal prosecutors for years.
A retired nurse and the mother of two young girls have each been found guilty of carrying out female genital mutilation in Australia's first prosecution of an FGM case.
Even so, Judge Connor didn't seem to believe that the prosecution had much of a case — she consistently granted defense motions, and overruled the prosecution — and neither did anyone else.
In one case, two blood-spatter specialists were caught on video high-fiving one another after running through multiple experiments until they found one that supported the prosecution's theory of a case.
There, he personally handled the prosecution of a particularly grisly case, of a man who shot his girlfriend, cut her into bits with a saw, buried part of her in the basement and then boiled her head, telling the police he planned to use it as a Halloween decoration.
