Posted on 06/09/2015 3:01:59 PM PDT by markomalley
Judge Charles J. Peters denied the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s motion on Tuesday for a gag order relating to the prosecution of six officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray. Marilyn Mosby‘s request was denied on the grounds that her staff sent the request in the wrong court at the time.
Mosby’s motion was filed in Baltimore’s circuit court on May 14, and was meant to forbid any public disclosure about the Gray case by any witnesses, attorneys and police involved. Peters declared that the motion lacked standing in the proceeding because until the officers’ May 21 indictment, the case was still under the jurisdiction of the District Court.
Prosecution spokeswoman Rochelle Ritchie, refused to say whether the state had any plans to file a new motion. “We’re not going to litigate this case in the media and discuss our trial strategy,” Ritchie said, in line with the gag request’s intended objective.
The attorneys representing the six officers had asked the court to strike the motion on procedural grounds. The Baltimore Sun and several other media outlets also filed motions opposing the order.
This is not the first procedural misstep made by Mosby’s office on this case. Mosby has been the subject of criticism and calls for removal from the case since an incident on May 1, when her office listed the wrong addresses for two of the charged officers, causing a media frenzy when the charges were directed to two people sharing the same names. She has also been described as an inexperienced prosecutor with a greater interest in activism than in the procedures of legal justice.
Other gag orders recently filed by Mosby include a request to block the release of Gray’s autopsy and other “sensitive” documents. The defense team has called this order “unfair”, claiming it would excessively include references made to the sensitive information in documents otherwise deemed non-sensitive.
Filed it in the wrong court
lol!!!!
Stupid is as stupid does.
Baltimore’s Nyfong is unfit for the job.
Did she file it in the food court at the local mall?
She should be dis-barred. She is not ready for prime time.
Affirmative action in action.
I know she purged anybody in her office that supported her competitor in the election but,..........didn't she keep any REAL lawyers in her office that know how all this works?
Did she file it in the food court at the local mall?
Half court?
Was it in cursive?
lol
Don’t you just love it?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
:-)
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What’s particularly funny is that in response to an earlier defense motion, she trashed them for filing it in the RIGHT court. Huge ego, no smarts.
Not too important, though, there was no ruling on the merits, so she can just refile it properly. Why the office would think indicating whether it intends to remedy its screwup is somehow “revealing litigation strategy” says more about the paranoia of the office than about anything else.
ROFL Good One
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