Welp, look who’s back in the news! Indirectly, that is, but she’s back just the same.
Former state’s attorney for Baltimore — and current convicted felon — Marilyn Mosby was the subject on Tuesday of the NAACP and a group of other civil rights organizations when they called on Joe Biden to pardon the former state official as she faces up to 40 years in prison following several convictions.
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Let’s first jump ahead to Mosby’s convictions and then come back to the NAACP’s contention that Mosby was both “politically” and “maliciously persecuted” motivated by Donald Trump’s Justice Department. Trust me, it’ll be more fun (and obvious) that way.
On November 9, 2023, Mosby was … convicted on two counts of perjury, relating to the withdrawal of funds from the City of Baltimore’s Deferred Compensation Plan claiming that she suffered adverse financial consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic while she was Baltimore City State’s Attorney. Mosby faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for each of the two counts of perjury.
Then…
A federal jury [on February 6, 2024] convicted Mosby … on the federal charge of making a false mortgage application when she was Baltimore City State’s Attorney, relating to the purchase of a condominium in Long Boat Key, Florida.
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U.S. Attorney Erek L. Barron said [of the verdict]: “We humbly respect the court’s c onsidered rulings, opposing counsels’ zealous advocacy, and the wisdom of both jury verdicts in this case and we remain focused on our mission to uphold the rule of law.”
Mosby faces a maximum of 30 years in federal prison for making a false mortgage application.
Is the potential sentence in the last case overly harsh? I can’t answer that— I’m neither a prosecutor nor a defense attorney. But I can say this:
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The NAACP and 14 other groups argued in a letter to Biden that Mosby was unfairly targeted and convicted “after enduring the political persecution and malicious prosecution of the Trump DOJ.”
We are deeply concerned that the last administration abused their power to advance a meritless indictment against Ms. Mosby and worse, the current administration’s U.S. Department of Justice ignored a clear political motive of the malicious prosecution against Ms. Mosby.
How so? Here’s a question for any member of the NAACP— or a local Lion’s Club, for that matter. Would you get away with such charges on which Ms. Mosby was indicted and ultimately convicted? (No. Let’s move to the next question).
Now, let’s pretend that either or both of the cases constituted political and/or malicious persecution, particularly under the watch of Donald Trump. So please explain to me how that reality conflates with Mosby being convicted in two different trials, one on November 9, 2023, and one on February 6, long after Trump and his presumed influence left office. You can’t — never mind.
The letter ends, thusly:
We expect that political persecutions and malicious prosecutions pursued during the Trump Administration would not continue in the Biden Administration,” the letter states. “Ms. Mosby’s case is not the only one — it is the latest and one of the most egregious cases. This matter should be corrected because it is a miscarriage of justice and an example of the last administration’s misuse of authority.
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Signatories included:
Black to the Future Action Fund, Black Voters Matter, Black Women’s Roundtable, Color of Change, Fair and Just Prosecution, National Action Network, National Bar Association, National Black Justice Coalition, National Black Law Students Association, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, National Council of Negro Women, National Urban League, Until Freedom, and World Without Genocide.
Meanwhile, an unbalanced judge in Manhattan threatens to throw Trump in jail over a gag order that is suspect at best— not necessarily for its validity but based solely on the activist judge’s political intent.
Meanwhile, Stormy Daniels’s testimony was a trip, huh?
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