Posted on 06/25/2015 4:28:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
By charging six police officers in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby restored order to Baltimore "before the entire city became an armed camp or was burned to the ground," her office argues in a new court filing.
Attorneys for the officers say Mosby's public announcement of the charges tainted the pool of potential jurors for their trial. They have asked a judge to throw the charges out.
But Michael Schatzow, Mosby's top deputy, said her announcement from the steps of Baltimore's War Memorial was appropriate in a city still reeling from a night of riots, arson and looting.
"Mrs. Mosby was trying to calm the crowd, not incite it," Schatzow wrote in a response to the defense motion. "Her repeated pleas for peace while the criminal justice system does its work served a legitimate law enforcement function."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Prosecutors admit to professional misconduct in Baltimore after riot?
An incompetent Political hack who just happens to be black.
How many homicides so far this month?
Mosby is an incompetent, arrogant pea brain who has made a mockery of the law.
I thought they ran out of stuff to steal.
Black mob justice is the Obama way.
Exactly! An individual’s right to a fair trial has nothing to do with “calming” anything.
So they went out into the streets to calm things down?
Baltimore used to be a fun place, back in the day. Now it’s just another $h!thole to be avoided. It could burn to the ground and the country would be better off.
Of course that was a time where you said what you meant and meant what you said.
Show trials for political purposes didn’t used to be an American thing. Obama promised change, and he delivered.
Bite me you racist B! No wonder Baltimore is still a leftist Democrat cesspool. It is because of people like her and the mayor and the useless Police Commissioner, that black people live like animals in so much of the city.
Decent blacks are now doomed to an ad infinitum leftist Dem rule that will keep the plantations open and the new slavery (drugs, crime, graft, cronyism, stupidity) in full swing.
I’m sorry for my old school mates from City, black and white, for what they are going through. They deserved better.
Caving to the mob is not rule of law.
Hammerjacks?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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