Posted on 06/09/2015 10:47:21 AM PDT by servo1969
Baltimore city state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby’s motion for a gag order in the Freddie Gray case was denied Monday because the prosecutor filed paperwork in the wrong court.
Mosby’s May 14 motion, filed in Baltimore’s circuit court, was intended to block witnesses, attorneys and police from speaking publicly about the Gray case. Six officers have been indicted on a total of 28 felony charges related to Gray’s April 12 arrest. The 25-year-old Gray died April 19. His death was ruled a homicide.
Judge Charles Peters slapped down Mosby’s motion, citing jurisdictional issues, The Baltimore Sun reported. The cases for the six officers charged were still on the district court’s docket when the motion was filed. The cases were only moved to the circuit court on May 21, after a grand jury indicted the officers.
It is unclear whether Mosby’s office will file a new request in circuit court.
“We’re not going to litigate this case in the media and discuss our trial strategy,” Rochelle Ritchie, a spokeswoman for Mosby’s office, told The Sun when asked whether a new motion is forthcoming.
The Daily Caller sought comment from Ritchie on what led the office to file the motion in the wrong court in the first place. She did not immediately respond.
This is not the state’s attorney’s office’s first procedural misstep. It also lends credence to critics of Mosby’s who have argued that she is an inexperienced prosecutor who is in over her head.
After Mosby first announced charges against the six cops May 1, charging documents listed the wrong addresses for two of the officers, Alicia White and Brian Rice. The charging documents listed individuals who shared the same first and last names with the two officers. The two victims of mistaken identity were hounded for a couple of days by aggressive reporters.
The Baltimore County sheriff’s office deferred questions at the time to Mosby’s office.
Missteps like that, as well as Mosby’s controversial public statements about the case, has generated a flurry of criticism. Page Croyder, a former prosecutor in the Baltimore city state’s attorney’s office, has publicly accused Mosby of using biased rhetoric when addressing the case. She has also claimed Mosby overcharged the six officers and that she lacks the proper experience to try the case.
Well, no one ever said you needed to be smart to be elected city prosecutor.
The poor woman doesn’t even have anyone in her office to point her in the right direction.
That's the kind of thing that white people worry about.
Either that or they’re afraid to speak up.
Or have any actual experience. As long as you're an activist with disregard for the law you're good to go.
Bet there are several that gently tried to guide her, but were told to “STFU, I run this office, don’t challenge my strategy”.
Marilyn Mosby, she be one a duh new school peeps. Her color on the book be blue!
I read a piece about her firing many people for political reasons when she came into office, some without even having met them. I doubt she’s very liked by a good many of her employees, they’re probably LTAO behind her back.
Is she an HBCU alumnus?
It was patently obvious in her first accusatory speech that Mosby was intent on railroading the officers involved even if it meant screwing the black officers. Anything for the ultimate goal of racial revenge.
Marilyn Mosby has proven yet again that she is every bit as qualified for her job as Barack Hussein Obama is for his job.
She is a poster child for affirmative action.
She’s vindictive and incompetent.NOT a winning combination.
Exactly, a very dim bulb.
"..that will put a couple of stones in your speedo's"
I am White and I am not worried about it. Heck, I am laughing my a$$ off.
As far as I am concerned, Baltimore no longer exists and Mosbyville isn’t going to make it.
What an idiot. I see this office doing some very stupid and unprofessional on into the future, such as chain of custody issues, Brady violations, etc., - things that will get this case tossed.
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