https://www.foxnews.com/us/bal...d-defense-team-quits

Former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's trial for perjury and making false mortgage applications was delayed again to November after her entire defense team quit last month, according to an order issued Monday.

Mosby pleaded not guilty last year to the charges, which allege that she falsely claimed a financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic to withdraw $90,000 from her retirement accounts, then used those funds to place down payments on two vacation properties in Florida.

Despite the claim of financial hardship, prosecutors say that Mosby received her full salary of $247,955.58 in 2020, the same year that she withdrew from her retirement accounts.

Prosecutors also alleged that Mosby lied on mortgage applications by failing to disclose unpaid federal taxes.

Mosby's former lead defense attorney, A. Scott Bolden, quit last month after U.S. District Court Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby threatened to hold him in contempt of court.

Bolden was scolded by the judge for accusing prosecutors of harboring racial animus, using profanity in an interview outside the Baltimore courthouse, and disclosing confidential responses from jurors in court filings.

Mosby lost her reelection bid last year in the Democratic primary after she was charged in federal court.

She had served two high-profile terms in the role, which included attempting to prosecute multiple officers in the 2015 death of Freddie Gray, a Black man who died in police custody.

Mosby also controversially directed her office to stop prosecuting quality-of-life crimes like drug possession and prostitution at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that it was necessary to reduce the chance of outbreaks in jails and prisons.

Her new public defender did not return a request for comment on Tuesday.

Jury selection in the case is slated to begin Oct. 31 and the trial will get underway on Nov. 2. Mosby previously put in a request for a venue change in the case, but the judge denied it.

If convicted, Mosby faces up to five years in prison for perjury and up to 30 years in prison for making false mortgage applications.

Something to look forward to.

She and her husband are going to end up as one vast smoking hole of oops.

She has a public defender? Interesting.

Things are looking bright these days.... Mosby up for trail, Garner thrown out, probably a trial in her future. Lightfoot ousted, about time is Foxx next? Krasner in Philly and Gascon in LA need to disappear. Wheeler was re-elected in PDX, all the alternatives was even more Left.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Things are looking bright these days.... Mosby up for trail, Garner thrown out, probably a trial in her future. Lightfoot ousted, about time is Foxx next? Krasner in Philly and Gascon in LA need to disappear. Wheeler was re-elected in PDX, all the alternatives was even more Left.

Gardner is not thrown out.....yet. There is a motion for her to be removed before the case goes to trial and the Judge gave Gardner 14 days to respond to it. I will wait and see: IF the judge does remove her before the trial, she is done. If the judge lets her remain until after a verdict in the trial, it could do either way.

Give her 30 days to get her new lawyers up to speed and then impanel the jury. She needs to do some time in the Big House.

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
She has a public defender? Interesting.

Considering the nature of the charges, maybe the original team wanted cash up front?

Why does someone like this get a defender paid for by the taxpayers?

Someone who:

-collected a salary of nearly $250k for years
-didn't pay federal taxes
-has 2 vacation properties in Florida which I'm sure she's making money on

This doesn't sound like someone who is short of money...

This would be a lot better if Mosby was currently in jail awaiting trial. I don’t think she is.

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
She has a public defender? Interesting.

Yeah, that caught my attention too.

I was under the impression that defendants were means tested before qualifying for a public defender.

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Originally posted by Modern Day Savage:
I was under the impression that defendants were means tested before qualifying for a public defender.

Oh, yes.

Court: You got money?

Mosby: Whatchu means??

Mosby looks like a classic case of "justice" for DEMs and "justice" for conservatives.

Donald Trunp gets hammered by contrived charges numbering almost 100 in several states.

Mosby ?

https://www.baltimoresun.com/m...flrftyfuy-story.html

A federal judge has moved Marilyn Mosby’s case from Baltimore to Greenbelt, and ordered that the former city state’s attorney have separate trials for her perjury and mortgage fraud charges.

Rather than standing trial on all charges on Nov. 2, Mosby will be tried that day only for two counts of perjury, U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby ruled Friday. The judge did not immediately schedule the second trial for Mosby’s mortgage fraud charges.

With Mosby considering testifying in her defense regarding only certain charges against her, Griggsby said splitting the trials is the only way to protect her constitutional rights.

Griggsby found that Mosby’s lawyers met the low legal burden for moving the case within the state, citing evidence the defense presented of extensive pretrial publicity, some of which, the judge said, “cast the defendant in a negative light.”

Mosby's former lawyers ( 6 of them) all quit. She now has a federal public defender attorney.

In July, she filed for divorce from her husband, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby.

Griggsby’s ruling means that no Baltimore resident will serve on the jury that decides Mosby’s case

Federal Public Defender James Wyda told Griggsby she had the “opportunity and obligation” to move the case because “there’s a chance to make things a little bit more fair for Ms. Mosby.”

Convinced that the pool of jurors in the Southern District would “hold less bias” toward Mosby than the Northern, Griggsby said giving Mosby the best chance of receiving a fair trial outweighed any potential inconvenience of trying her case in Greenbelt.

Neither the prosecution nor the defense was able to identify a case moved within the federal court district in Maryland throughout its 234-year history

Mosby’s attorneys said that having her stand trial on the different charges at the same time limited her ability to present a defense.

While Mosby wants to testify in her defense against one set of charges, she wants to preserve her Fifth Amendment right to protect herself from self incrimination by remaining silent on the other charges, Assistant Federal Public Defender Maggie Grace told Griggsby on Friday.

she gets 2 public defenders

In her ruling, Griggsby said she could come up with no other way to protect Mosby’s constitutional rights other than to split the trial.

Grace said the defense would move to prohibit prosecutors from questioning Mosby about the mortgage fraud allegations if she testifies in her own defense at the perjury trial.



Griggsby appointed by Biden in 2021 to U.S. District Court for Maryland

I dunno. Sounds like she's getting put through the ringer and is being personally BK'ed by the process. Been a while since I lived in that area, but I doubt the jury pool in Greenbelt is gonna be any easier on her than in Baltimore. They're not that far apart and they both get their tv and radio news from the same areas - DC and Baltimore.

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I dunno. Sounds like she's getting put through the ringer and is being personally BK'ed by the process.

You may be right. If so, I’m not sure it could happen to a more deserving person.

Guilty on two counts of perjury. She still has two more counts of making false mortgage applications.

Good news!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/for...y-two-counts-perjury

WooHoo!!

BIATCH!!

Great news. It is a good beginning. Let's hope Kim Foxx is not far down the line.

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As she walked out of a federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, following the verdict, Mosby said, "I'm blessed," according to FOX 45.

Probably misunderstood the phrase "I'm screwed". Or it's a translation from the Southern, as in "Bless your heart!"

Baltimore police union appears to call Mosby conviction 'karma'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...on-karma/ar-AA1jJq3s

Baltimore's police union is among those sharing reactions to former City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's conviction.

The Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 (FOP3) posted a statement on social media less than an hour after a federal jury found Mosby guilty of two counts of perjury on Thursday.

The FOP3 ended its statement with the words, "Karma, Marilyn!"

Mosby garnered national attention when she indicted six Baltimore Police officers after the death of Freddie Gray in 2015.

None of the officers were ever convicted.

“I know the FOP called it karma," said Sergeant Betsy Smith, spokesperson for the National Police Association. "I think I would call it our justice system at work.”
While Mosby's conviction is making national headlines, Smith says Baltimore's officers are also likely following this story.

“I'm sure there are police officers in Baltimore who are applauding the conviction of Marilyn Mosby," said Smith. "But I've got to say -- you know what most cops in Baltimore City are doing today? They're going out there, they're doing their jobs, they're risking their lives, and I think that they all probably have a lot of hope that they’re going to have a better relationship with the prosecutor's office moving forward.”