Can State\’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby objectively, impartially, handle the Freddie Gray case if her husband is the City Council member who represents the district Gray lived in and the Gray family\’s lawyer is one of her biggest donors and a member of her transition team?
Lawyers for the Baltimore 6 – the police officers Mosby charged in the death of Gray – say no.
Excerpted from an article at foxnews.com:
Defense attorneys representing six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray filed a motion Friday to have the case dismissed, or for the city\’s top prosecutor to be recused from the case and replaced by a special prosecutor, citing alleged conflict of interest.The attorneys argue in the documents that the officers were victims of an \’overzealous prosecution\’ by State\’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who they claim has personal and political motivations in the case.
Among the alleged conflicts of interest cited, the motion includes Mosby\’s marriage to the city councilman who represents the district where Gray died.
The motion claims that Mike Mosby had a professional and personal interest in having riots in his district that erupted after Gray\’s death come to an end, and that Marilyn Mosby therefore had an interest in filing charges quickly.
Defense attorneys contend that Mosby\’s relationship with the Gray family attorney also creates a conflict of interest. The attorney, William Murphy, is a close friend, ally and lawyer for Mosby.
The filing also cites a pending motion against her office, her office\’s role in investigating the case and Mosby\’s personal relationships with potential witnesses as reasons she should be recused from the case.
This, of course, is before we get to Ms. Mosby parroting the incendiary “no justice, no peace” line, straight out of racial agitator al sharpton\’s playbook (which is also mentioned, further on in the article).
So: should Mosby recused herself? Should she have done so before filing charges – charges that are being lambasted and ridiculed by legal professionals as far overreaching anything she could realistically get a conviction on?
Is this a case of a newly elected state\’s attorney, with neither sufficient experience nor a sufficient concern for keeping things professional and ethical, placating rioters/looters/arsonists instead of seeking justice?
You tell me.
