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The PJ Tatler Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby Botched the Charges of 2 of the Officers
2015-05-05
tate's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's prosecution against the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, is getting off to a shaky start. One of the main pillars of her case is that the officers made an illegal arrest because Gray was not carrying an illegal knife. But the Police task force determined that the knife does violate a Baltimore code.

Mosby also badly botched her announcement of the charges in the case at her press conference, Friday afternoon. Of the six Baltimore PD officers who were charged, "two of them were charged under the wrong names, the wrong dates of birth, and wrong address," Sheriff Mike Lewis alleged on Hannity , Monday night.


"When Miss Mosby stood up in front of the world with her theatrics at her press conference last Friday she charged two of the wrong people. Now, when I say she charged two of the wrong people, I don't mean she charged two of the wrong officers. I mean she charged the wrong people. Innocent people. Of the six police officers that were charged, two of them were charged under the wrong names, the wrong dates of birth and the wrong addresses.

And because of that, reporters went to the wrong addresses of these innocent people, these private citizens and whose lives have now been invaded. They went to their homes, knocked on their doors. They harassed them. They went to their neighbors and attempted to get interviews. And it wasn't until these innocent people these private citizens contacted their local state's attorney's offices that this problem was rectified."


Lewis concluded that the embarrassing blunder was the "direct result of a hasty prosecutor who wants to charge these individuals."
Sounds like a hasty witch trial to appease the masses? Coverup to protect higher ups? Incompetence all the way down?
Posted by:DarthVader

#14  Only Lady Marilyn Mosby
Knows how out of joint her nose be:
The blade that by right should've dubbed her
Is brandished by those who have snubbed her.

Bravo! I vote for the blatant snub direct, as the lady deserves nothing less.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-05-05 20:01  

#13  I'll be charitable and chalk it up as a rush-job.

That said, how in blazes did a cafeteria manager and a plumber's personal information ("...address... height... weight...driver's license number...") end up in the public domain without someone in the Marland County Sheriff's Office, or the State's Attorney's Office, checking on it first?

At least they had the sense to modify the cops' addresses to the general mailing address for the Baltimore Police Department...
Posted by: Pappy   2015-05-05 18:07  

#12  Only Lady Marilyn Mosby
Knows how out of joint her nose be:
The blade that by right should've dubbed her
Is brandished by those who have snubbed her.
Posted by: Shuting Gurly-Brown7975   2015-05-05 17:10  

#11  She's attractive enough, she could always fall back to pr0n.

But can she claim her time in the legal profession as 'experience'?
Snark of the Day
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-05-05 17:02  

#10  Another example of the Progressive 'I meant well' to cover something that fails. Wonder if the 'mob' buys it. Nah, me neither.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-05-05 16:42  

#9  She's attractive enough, she could always fall back to pr0n.
Posted by: Unonter Bluetooth3165   2015-05-05 16:21  

#8  No surprises. The Baltimore PD is, after all, nothing more than one part of a deep blue city government which is broken and corrupt from one end to the next.
Posted by: Iblis   2015-05-05 16:06  

#7  
Posted by:    2015-05-05 15:19  

#6  The details:

When charges were announced Friday against Alicia White for the death of Freddie Gray, her phone started buzzing from journalists and bail bondsmen. The problem was, they were calling the wrong Alicia White. The elementary school cafeteria manager from East Baltimore was not the Baltimore Police sergeant charged with manslaughter in the high-profile police custody death - even though court records listed her.

On Friday evening, Tammy and Brian Rice of Brunswick, Md. said they were receiving multiple calls from reporters looking for the lieutenant. Brian Rice of Brunswick is a plumber, they said.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-05-05 14:59  

#5  2 Down 4 to go.
Posted by: Phinemp Dribble6797   2015-05-05 14:39  

#4  Well, as for police determining that something you were carrying or doing broke the law "in some way," is not exactly a betting odds outcome, eh?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2015-05-05 14:34  

#3  The hasty indictments were more about crowd control than justice.

And political ambitions of the fresh new attorney general who oh-so desperately wants to make a name for herself.

And later on when the charges are dropped or reduced or they are aquitted and the city is literally burning around her. She can say "I did my best! It was the corrupt system which let these murderers go free! Vote for me to fix it!"

Never mentioning that Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, and other crime-ridden cities are the de-facto Model Cities of Democrat Rule.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-05-05 14:25  

#2  The real kicker's yet to come, as in the fact that the "local jokester" was going about his regular business at the pusher's corner. The knife was the probable cause to take him into custody. The possession charge was supposed to come later, but Freddie screwed his own pooch.
Posted by: Fred   2015-05-05 13:48  

#1  The hasty indictments were more about crowd control than justice. It worked. The can has been kicked. Yes, it will eventually unravel down the road and the riots will reboot, but then we can blame the White Man's legal system for the chaos.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-05-05 12:54  

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