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Baltimore prosecutor asked police to target area where Freddie Gray was arrested
File under "Baltimore Police Lynching." [BALTIMORESUN] About three weeks before Freddie Gray was chased from a West Baltimore corner by three Baltimore coppers -- the start of a fatal encounter -- the office of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked police to target the intersection with "enhanced" drug enforcement efforts, court documents show.What was that famous quote from Marion Berry again... "State's Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St," Joshua Rosenblatt, division chief of Mosby's Crime Strategies Unit, wrote in a March 17 email to a Western District police commander. The email was disclosed for the first time Tuesday in a motion filed in Baltimore Circuit Court by defense attorneys for the six officers being prosecuted in Gray's arrest and death. The attorneys said Mosby's involvement in the police initiative means that she should be removed from the case. "Mrs. Mosby herself is now an integral part of the story and as such is a central witness," the defense attorneys argued. "This is a case where the witness and the prosecutor are one and the same." Mosby, through spokeswoman Rochelle Ritchie, said, "Consistent with our prosecutorial obligations, we will litigate this case in the courtroom and not in the media." Mosby's office received the motion Tuesday afternoon, Ritchie said. Law school grad was she? Are her transcripts available ? Mosby's office has dismissed previous defense calls for her recusal, including those based on conflict-of-interest allegations stemming from her husband's post as city councilman in the district where Gray was nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! . Posted by: Fred 2015-06-11 |
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