Freddie Gray Prosecutor Faces Possible Disbarment

Source: RedState | July 3, 2016 | Leon H. Wolf

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However, Marilyn Mosby, the prosecutor in the center of the Freddie Gray prosecutions, has been hit with a bar complaint that seeks her disbarment for a bevy of ethical violations related to her prosecution of six baltimore police officers:

According to the complaint, filed by Prof. John F. Banzhaf, Mosby violated multiple provisions of the Maryland Lawyer’s Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) including withholding exculpatory evidence, making improper public statements and continuing to prosecute a case after there is insufficient evidence to support a conviction.

“In many situations somebody with legal knowledge to file a complaint — such as an attorney in private practice — would be relunctant to do so because they dont want to stir up controversy…. So, the only group that remains able to do soemthing like this would be law professors.  They have legal skill … and we are reasonably impartial,” Prof. Banzahaf said to LawNewz.com.

He added, “I do not represent anyone in the case, I have no direct involvement and I’m not in Baltimore.  That makes me about as impartial as you can get.”

Several news reports and developments in the Freddie Gray cases over the past few weeks also played a large role in Prof. Banzhaf’s decision to file complaint.  Specifically, the allegations from the lead investigator who claims prosecutors misled the grand jury in order to obtain an indictment. An affidavit from a Baltimore Sheriff’s investigator who says they played a minimal role in the investigation.  Mosby has claimed the Sheriff’s Office conducted its own independent investigation of Gray’s death, but in the new affidavit the investigator strongly denies the claims, saying he had “no involvement in the investigation whatsoever.”

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