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Baltimore Prosecutor Who Swore to Nail Police Officers Charged with Misconduct

<p>Twenty-five year old Freddie Gray died in police custody shortly following his arrest in April 2015&period; His death incited months of rioting in Baltimore and helped fuel the then-fledgling Black Lives Matter movement&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Maryland State Attorney Marilyn Mosby was <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagpost&period;com&sol;suspicions-fly-after-marilyn-mosby-rashly-accuses-six-baltimore-cops&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>quick to blame Freddie&rsquo&semi;s death on the police officers<&sol;strong><&sol;a> involved in his arrest and promised to convict six of them two days before the investigation was over&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mosby has since been accused of deceit&comma; misconduct&comma; and fraud &ndash&semi; with more than a few professionals asking that she be disbarred&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Freddie Gray case dragged on for months&comma; but finally came to a close in July 2016 with zero convictions&period; This month&comma; a federal judge in Maryland agreed to pursue a lawsuit against Mosby filed by five of the police officers she originally charged with Freddie&rsquo&semi;s death&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>US District Judge Marvin J&period; Garbis is allowing claims including &ldquo&semi;malicious prosecution&comma; defamation&comma; and invasion of privacy&rdquo&semi; to move forward against Mosby&comma; reports the&nbsp&semi;<em>Baltimore Sun&period; <&sol;em>He has dismissed claims of&nbsp&semi;false imprisonment&comma; false arrest&comma; and abuse of process&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Judge Garbis found that &ldquo&semi;while Marilyn Mosby said that she enjoyed absolute immunity as a prosecutor from being sued for her actions that because she has acted as an independent investigator in this case&comma; that that was open to more scrutiny&comma;&rdquo&semi; explains Justin Fenton of the <em>Baltimore Sun&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Garbis&rsquo&semi; ruling is likely to favor the plaintiffs&comma; and the decision may lead to the deposition of Mosby and key staff members&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;We&rsquo&semi;re looking forward to the depositions and learning about what really happened&comma;&rdquo&semi; said David Ellin&comma; one of the attorneys representing the police officers&period; &ldquo&semi;We think the discovery process will really allow us to flesh out many things&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ellin predicts the ruling will be appealed to the fourth circuit and may even make it to the Supreme Court&period; &ldquo&semi;The ramifications of this care are huge&comma; and nationwide&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Ellin&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> This is the woman who decided these police officers were guilty before the investigation was completed&period; Her assertions of their guilt that fueled the riots and she shares a large portion of the&nbsp&semi;responsibility for the damage&nbsp&semi;that was done&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mosby&nbsp&semi;had no business being in the position she was in&comma; her biases should have disqualified her&period; &nbsp&semi;If she is indeed found guilty of misconduct&comma; then all of her cases will have to be reviewed&period; Her lack of integrity is an embarrassment to the city of Baltimore&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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