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BALTIMORE PROSECUTOR RECEIVED CAMPAIGN MONEY FROM FREDDIE GRAY’S FAMILY ATTORNEY
Breitbart ^ | 5/1/2015 | ALEX SWOYER

Posted on 05/03/2015 10:40:00 AM PDT by Beave Meister

The Fraternal Order of Police lodge in Baltimore City is asking for Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to remove herself from the Freddie Gray investigation and appoint a special prosecutor. On Friday, Mosby announced she was filing charges against six officers in the death of Freddie Gray.

According to Capital Gazette, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police lodge argues she has a personal conflict due to connections with both Freddie Gray’s attorney Bill Murphy and her husband, City Councilman Nick Mosby.

Attorney and former judge William (Bill) H. Murphy, Jr. represents the Gray family.

Murphy was also a supporter and donated to Mosby’s campaign when she ran for office. According to state filing records, Murphy donated $5,000 dollars to Marilyn Mosby’s campaign.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: baltimore; baltimorepd; baltimorepolice; blackkk; blacks; corruption; elijahcummings; freddiegrey; marilynmosby; maryland; nickmosby; obma; police; riots
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To: Beave Meister

She obviously should recuse herself.....but she is a Dem, if she were a Republican, she would have already done so.


21 posted on 05/03/2015 11:16:35 AM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: grania
The whole thing about donations to campaigns for judges is a bad idea.

How far do you go in claiming that free speech is a "bad idea"?

22 posted on 05/03/2015 11:22:13 AM PDT by SSS Two
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To: Beave Meister

It looks like those six cops are political prisoners... Even though most made bail, the principle of show trial and political prisoner applies here.


23 posted on 05/03/2015 11:30:36 AM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to targelationt the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Beave Meister

It looks like those six cops are political prisoners... Even though most made bail, the principle of show trial and political prisoner applies here.


24 posted on 05/03/2015 11:31:03 AM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to targelationt the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Beave Meister

Sufficient cause for the prosecutor to recuse herself. No doubt the defense lawyers will take that and use it to remover her from the case.


25 posted on 05/03/2015 11:32:42 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Cen-Tejas

She will be ordered to. She will initially refuse.


26 posted on 05/03/2015 11:34:04 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Beave Meister

He was also on her transition team after she was elected


27 posted on 05/03/2015 11:34:16 AM PDT by pnz1
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To: Beave Meister

She’s a hottie. What about that?


28 posted on 05/03/2015 11:35:30 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
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To: Beave Meister

Let’s see how Marilyn Mosby-Nifong fairs...


29 posted on 05/03/2015 11:42:47 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: SSS Two

Judges are supposed to be impartial. How does donating to their campaigns enhance free speech?


30 posted on 05/03/2015 11:44:54 AM PDT by grania
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To: conservativejoy
If I give money to a politician, does that affect their judgment or decisions based on my contribution? If it does, then ‘speech’ should be regulated?
31 posted on 05/03/2015 11:56:08 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: grania

“One could question if a trial lawyer should even be allowed to donate for a city’s attorney candidate”

That is a damned good question. The same could (and should) be said about judicial elections. In practice, the majority of donations to prosecutorial and judicial candidates comes from trial attorneys, and it is a huge problem.

Frankly, I think that judicial and prosecutorial elections are the one area where public campaign financing makes sense. Unlike other elected positions, those positions are supposed to be impartial, and are highly sensitive to the appearance of impropriety.


32 posted on 05/03/2015 11:57:34 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: grania
Judges are supposed to be impartial.

Yes. Judges are intended to be impartial arbiters of the law.

How does donating to their campaigns enhance free speech?

Bans on Free Speech should restrict no more speech than necessary to achieve a compelling government objective. I'm not sure what objective you seek to achieve with your proposal to restrict Free Speech, but Justice Scalia discussed this principle just last week in Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar:

before one can tell whether that interest is compelling and whether the speech restriction narrowly targets it. In White, for example, the Court did not allow a State to invoke hazy concerns about judicial impartiality in justification of an ethics rule against judicial candidates’ announcing their positions on legal issues.

Even if we assume that you can articulate some sort of vague justification to restrict speech, there is no evidence whatsoever that your favored prescription to restrict speech would have any effect at all on judicial impartiality. (Your emotional revulsion to speech supporting judicial candidates is not evidence.)

And, for the sake of argument, lets say you can provide some sort of workable vague justification to restrict speech and can even conjure up some evidence that your speech prohibition would actually cause the positive effect you seek, your objection to Free Speech is so broad that it would still be unconstitutional. You'd catch someone who wants to donate to a law school classmate or someone who likes the judge's broad judicial philosophy in your blanket ban on speech.

I encourage you to read Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar. Even the majority did not find that campaign donations to judicial candidates should be prohibited. But Justice Scalia's spirited dissent in Williams-Yulee provides a forceful case that campaign contributions to judicial candidates is protected Free Speech.

33 posted on 05/03/2015 1:10:49 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: Beave Meister

He was also on her transition team and she refers to him as her mentor.

I see a problem.


34 posted on 05/03/2015 1:32:48 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Beave Meister

Nothing will happen. She enjoys protective pigmentation.


35 posted on 05/03/2015 1:39:16 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Theoria

If you are personal friends with that politician, it very well could. This prosecutor has a responsibility to recuse herself based on her relationship to the Gray family and to their attorney. She has already showed herself to be politically motivated to overcharge those officers. Not just my opinion, but the opinion of every judge, attorney, and law professor I’ve heard comment on this situation. No way is she impartial, period.


36 posted on 05/03/2015 1:51:19 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: grania

I would have thought so, but according to Judge Alex (who I believe is a real straight-shooter), this is common practice. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but his comment was also that nobody else but lawyers would donate to lawyers.

I can see that point .. because lawyers don’t always have a good reputation, unless they work as a prosecutor and have a good conviction record.

But .. the lawyers can donate to prosecutors .. and you’re okay with that .. the current prosecutor is not a JUDGE ..!!! If she is, then I’ve read the whole donation thing wrong.


37 posted on 05/03/2015 5:05:41 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: bigbob

Dear bigbob,
(I hear that ol’ Jimmy Dean tune a-comin’ .... “big bob”, er, “big john’)

re: “Inexperienced, big talker, in over her head...sound familiar?”

Uhhhh, Hillary???? Fauxcohantas? That dumb blonde Harf girl?


38 posted on 05/04/2015 2:27:11 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Beave Meister

That stinks to high heaven if true. It probably will aid the cases of the police officers she charged if she’s taking pay offs from interested parties.


39 posted on 05/04/2015 12:41:44 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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