Hayden O'Byrne takes over an office that has the lowest morale that I have seen since I started working down here. And monster problems permeate the entire culture of 99 building. Some suggestions for the office below. Please add others to the comments:
1. Stop bringing the low level drug and gun state cases. Leave those to the state system. Focus on the large scale cases that the feds were traditionally known for.
2. Give your line prosecutors more discretion to do the right thing. Let them work out deals to pretrial diversion, minor role, lower loss, etc., without having to get 8 levels of approval.
3. See #2 when it comes to variances. Give line prosecutors the ability to agree to variances.
4. Make yourself and your senior staff available to defense counsel to discuss cases.
5. Open file discovery.
6. Early Jencks.
7. Stop filing motions in limine to preclude the defense from defending their clients.
8. Stop filing motions to reconsider when you lose a motion.
9. Stop assigning prosecutors who clerked for the judge to that judge's courtroom.
10. Zero tolerance for prosecutors who engage in misconduct.
11. What else?
