[leoqa]

I think there is a really nuanced check-and-balance system that has extreme visibility for the federal legal system:

- investigators need approval from a prosecutor to move forward with investigations, and ultimately have to present their evidence in sales calls to their boss/peers. It’s a lot of red tape.

- prosecutors have bosses and reputations to uphold, they don’t want to take on risk.

- judges act as a procedural review for the prosecutor and watchdog for civil liberties

- the defense is red teaming the prosecutor and investigators for fraud etc

- the appeals court acts as a second level review for everyone + original judge

- it’s all public so journalists can poke around.

[chii]

which is all good, because it is better to let 9 guilty men free, than to wrongfully imprison 1 innocent.