The team includes James Quarles, who was on the special prosecutor team during Watergate, and Andrew Weissman, who leads the DOJ's criminal fraud unit.
About 175 of Mr. Devine's 930 prosecutors, in teams of two or three, are working on the clemency hearings.
Mr. Hynes said the case was the second in Brooklyn in which the police and prosecutors had teamed up to use a pattern of low-level drug deals to bring conspiracy charges against those selling narcotics in a housing development.
Such grumbles can reignite violence.Another complaint from HRW is that the prosecutor's team has taken no account of the roles played in the conflict by the governments of Uganda, Rwanda or Congo.
"The reality is that over time police officers inevitably come to see themselves as part of the prosecutor's team".
I am not concerned about any biases that members of the special prosecutor's team may have about me.
But the reality is that over time police officers inevitably come to see themselves as part of the prosecutor's team.
It's a fantastic launch for the comedy-thriller about an over-zealous criminal prosecutor who teams up with a chipper conman after he is framed and sent to prison.
None of the trial team prosecutors would comment on the case.
Unlike the civilian prosecutors, the military team built its case around detainee confessions that are likely to raise challenges over whether they were tainted by torture.
In court last week, the officer who conducted the police's internal-affairs investigation testified that prosecutors prevented his team from taking the medical records to an expert; prosecutors, in turn, said that was because they had their own experts.
