Prime Minister Garry Conille announced this week that the U.S. State Department is sending a delegation of international law specialists to access Haiti's recovering judiciary.

Details about the advisory group were not released, but Conille suggested in an interview with the Associated Press that the group will investigate the recent controversial decision by Judge Carves Jean to not charge former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier for human rights violations.

The decision has sparked local and international concern about the transparency of Haiti's recovering judicial system. In the announcement of his ruling, Judge Jean argued that the human rights charges made against Duvalier during his reign from 1971 to 1986 fell beyond the statute of limitations, and could not be pursued in court. This was despite Haiti's declared legal compliance with international laws, which puts no statute of limitations on human rights atrocities. Following the international protests over the ruling, an appeal was filed by the Justice Ministry.