Baltimore prosecutor asked police to target area where
Freddie Gray was arrested
Defense lawyers for police officers charged in the death of
Freddie Gray while in police custody have called for Marilyn Mosby to step down
as prosecutor, citing an email calling for increased police activity.
By Kevin Rector The Baltimore Sun
Marilyn Mosby asked police to target corner where Freddie
Gray ran.
June 9, 2015 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-mosby-email-20150609-story.html?track=rss#page=1
About three weeks before Freddie Gray
was chased from a West Baltimore corner by three Baltimore police officers —
the start of a fatal encounter — the office of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked
police to target the intersection with "enhanced" drug enforcement
efforts, court documents show.
"State's Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community
concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St,"
Joshua Rosenblatt, division chief of Mosby's Crime Strategies Unit, wrote in a
March 17 email to a Western District police commander.
The email was disclosed for the first time Tuesday in a
motion filed in Baltimore Circuit Court by defense attorneys for the six
officers being prosecuted in Gray's arrest and death. The attorneys said
Mosby's involvement in the police initiative means that she should be removed
from the case.
"Mrs. Mosby herself is now an integral part of the
story and as such is a central witness," the defense attorneys argued.
"This is a case where the witness and the prosecutor are one and the
same."
Mosby, through spokeswoman Rochelle Ritchie, said,
"Consistent with our prosecutorial obligations, we will litigate this case
in the courtroom and not in the media." Mosby's office received the motion
Tuesday afternoon, Ritchie said… Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-mosby-email-20150609-story.html?track=rss#page=1
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