Federal Judge Denies Marilyn Mosby’s Motions To Dismiss The U.S. Government’s Case!

FEATURED PHOTO: BALTIMORE CITY STATE ATTORNEY MARILYN MOSBY

YourBlackWorld.net, By Victor Trammell, Posted April 26th 2022

All three defense petitions to dismiss charges against Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby were rejected by a federal court.

After almost two hours of oral arguments in which the defense painted the case as a spiteful prosecution, the judge made a final decision on April 14.

Following the judge’s ruling, Mosby announced outside the courthouse:

“I believe we should consider how these inquiries originated. It began with my trip, followed by an inquiry by the (Office of the Inspector General) and a referral to the state Ethics Commission and the state Board of Elections. For the last two years, they have searched every area of my existence. And here we are: hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs owed, fighting a war that they are now waging against me. They provided tax evasion advice based on taxes I hadn’t yet charged. A prosecution declined to provide exculpatory evidence to a grand jury in this case. This is a case of prosecutorial misconduct. So, sure, I’m going to fight, and I’ll win, just like I always do.”

A. Scott Bolden, Mosby’s lawyer, requested the court to dismiss the case and disqualify the prosecutors who were prosecuting it.

Bolden labeled Mosby’s treatment unlawful, alleging that the case’s primary prosecutor, Assistant United States Attorney Leo Wise, is “certainly doing this out of vindictiveness” since Mosby humiliated him in front of his employer four years ago.

“The one thing I’ll agree with Mr. Bolden on is that he presented a tale,” Wise said of the government’s opposing claims.

The defense motions were a “jumble of unsubstantiated and poorly reasoned personal assaults disconnected from the law,” according to Wise.

“The evidence against the defendant is strong and her behavior was atrocious,” Wise told the court, adding that the case would have been brought with or without him.

Mosby has pleaded not guilty to perjury charges stemming from claims that she fraudulently feigned financial hardship to get unrestricted access to her retirement account. She’s also accused of falsifying information on a loan application.

This matter will now go to a jury trial, which is set to begin on September 19.