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Baltimore State Attorney Slapped with Disbarment Charges Over Freddie Gray Case

<p>It all started on April 12th&comma; 2015 &ndash&semi; the arrest and subsequent death of 25-year-old African American Freddie Gray in Baltimore&comma; Maryland&period; Before the investigation was over&comma; State Attorney Marilyn Mosby vowed revenge on six of the policemen involved in the arrest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mosby&comma; known for defending young black &ldquo&semi;victims&comma;&rdquo&semi; insisted that the boy&rsquo&semi;s death was caused by police brutality and negligence&period; The impassioned speech she gave to the public incited protests and riots that sent Baltimore into a sate of emergency&period;&nbsp&semi;Over 20 police officers were injured in the civil unrest that persisted for many months&period; Over 200 arrests were made as Black Lives Matter mobs damaged more than 300 businesses&comma; started fires&comma; and looted 27 drugstores&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mosby&rsquo&semi;s indictments were suspicious from the start&comma; and many called her to recuse herself from the case&period; Now&comma; a professor has filed an ethics complaint against the attorney&comma; asking the Maryland Bar Association to disbar her due to misconduct in her prosecution of the six officers&period;&nbsp&semi;The complaint claims that Mosby withheld evidence and asks for a full investigation into Mosby&rsquo&semi;s conduct during the case&period; Mosby has also been accused of making false statements&comma; engaging in fraudulent and deceitful behavior&comma; and continuing to prosecute cases even after the judge assigned to hear them found insufficient evidence to support her convictions&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Three of the six officers have been tried by Judge Barry Williams &lpar;also black&rpar;&period; After being acquitted&comma; two of them have decided to file lawsuits against Mosby for invasion of privacy&period; Many are demanding the attorney give up on the remaining three trials&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mosby&rsquo&semi;s chances of getting any convictions out of the remaining three cases are slim to none&comma; but not proceeding with the trials will only serve to reinforce the accusation that she never had sufficient evidence to back up her claims in the first place&period;&nbsp&semi;And trying the cases and losing&comma; which is likely&comma; will only reinforce the disbarment charge&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Attorneys are supposed to impartial&comma; but it is clear in this case that Mosby was not&period; She had assumed office just a few months before the Freddie Gray incident and probably thought that by nailing six police officers &ndash&semi; and thus pleasing the rioting Black Lives Matter crowd &ndash&semi; her political future would be sealed&period;&nbsp&semi;Mosby&&num;8217&semi;s ill-fated and politically motivated campaign against Baltimore police has tarnished her credibility as an attorney and she should be disbarred&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;The legal system assumes that a prosecutor will not win every case&comma; but it also assumes&comma; and gives a prosecutor ample discretion and tools&comma; that cases will not be tried that do not have at least a good chance of success&period; A former Assistant US Attorney told me that never in his 18 years prosecuting cases had he ever heard of a prosecutor losing three successive cases stemming from the same offense&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em>Breitbart&rsquo&semi;s<&sol;em> Alfred Regnery&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mosby has done enormous damage to the state that entrusted her with office&period; Her political activism has led to a shocking increase in crime&comma; generated a widespread mistrust of police officers&comma; and has cast a shadow over the justice system as a whole&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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