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.
this case is already lost. She will reach into her wallet for guess which “card”.
Affirmative action and anti-white racism are ruining this country.
She should be the first one to be gagged. She should be the first one not to talk about the case in public, yet she has absolutely no problem!
now multiply her with other prosecutors all over the country.
Think nifong.
Think corey.
Think of all the cases too un media worthy...
She went to Boston College Law School.
They must be real thrilled at the publicity they’re getting. LOL
Affirmative Action.
With a diversity candidate in action, competence goes out the window.
The only reason she doesn't get a do-over on this is *white privilege*. /s
I agree this case is already lost. If they wanted to make a case, then they should have done due diligence, professionally investigated, properly charged if warranted, and acted responsibly when in office communications. They did none of that.
I took 6 hours of Business LAW in college. Tough, tough, tough.
My hat goes off to those that do the time in law school, it is a grind. You now have book learning but no practical. She is looking like no book and no practical.
Someone throw her an anchor.
#BlackCityAttyGagOrdersMatter
I suddenly see a very real possibility that the officer (thankfully) all get off on the charges and SHE is blamed 100% for screwing up the case.
That would be awesome!
She is getting that deer-in-the-headlights look- I hope someone is whispering “Nifong” in her ear every day.
What ever happened to THAT P.O.S. anyway?
disbarred and filed for bankruptcy.
um... aw
This is a damned shame, because there are plenty of qualified black attorneys out there.
Crap like this is just fodder for racists and bigots.
Instead of clamoring for affirmative action and demanding quotas and such, one would think “race activists” would go out of their way to jettison the incompetent and make sure that “white society” sees only the best and brightest black lawyers, engineers, doctors, and other professionals.
Under the current “system”, though, while incompetent white professionals for the most part fail on their own and are then culled from the ranks; competence (or incompetence) appears to play NO part in whether a black professional is “successful” or not. The only thing that seems to matter is the person’s racial politics.
Mosby had to be tutored to get into Law School. She kept failing the entrance exam. Wonder how many times she had to take the bar exam?
Affirmative Action is bearing fruit at the municipal as well as the federal level.
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