Posted on 05/20/2015 9:50:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The office of Baltimore City state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby has added a new wrinkle to the Freddie Gray case, alleging in a court filing that the 25-year-old was illegally arrested by Baltimore police officers even before they recovered a knife on his person.
In the motion, filed Monday, deputy state’s attorney Michael Schatzow rebuts a May 8 motion for dismissal and recusal filed by attorneys for the six officers charged in the case. Schatzow calls the attorneys’ claims that Mosby has numerous conflicts of interest “premature, frivolous, illogical.”
Schatzow also addressed Gray’s knife, which became a central part of the case when Mosby announced charges against the officers on May 1. Gray was arrested on April 12 and died a week later. His death was ruled a homicide, and he was determined to have sustained a broken neck while riding in the back of a police van.
During her press conference, Mosby stated that Gray was illegally arrested and that his knife was “legal under Maryland law.”
But in a May 8 motion for dismissal and recusal, attorneys for the officers disputed Mosby’s knife claim. They argued that while Gray’s “spring-action” knife was legal in Maryland, it was illegal in Baltimore.
In his response, Schatzow disputed the notion that Mosby argued that the legality of Gray’s arrest hinges on the knife.
Instead, he asserted that the statement of probable cause against the officers “makes clear that Mr. Gray was arrested well before the arresting officers knew he possessed a knife.”
“Mr. Gray was handcuffed at his surrendering location, moved a few feet away, and placed in a prone position with his arms handcuffed behind his back, all before the arresting officers found the knife,” Schatzow stated.
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This is going to be fun to watch.
Ordinarily, I am not a fan of watching train wrecks in process, but knowing who is driving the train and riding in the passenger cars makes this one an exception
How long before Money buys a ‘Free Press’??? Green Grass Fields Gone!
From the movie Presumed Innocent. “Nobody’s manufacturing evidence in my courtroom”:
Isn’t it the judge’s job to decide which sorts of evidence get included or excluded, not the prosecutor’s?
Is this nit-twit (sic) going to prosecute the case herself, or get someone to do it for her?
Ha! Mosby is a liar. The knife is the central issue to her supposed “false imprisonment” (i.e. illegal arrest) charges.
Clearly she has now determined that the cops were right and the knife was an illegal switchblade under the local ordinance. Now everything boils down to whether this was a proper “Terry” stop.
Mosby= Ignorant stupid quota baby
Please, please, please prosecute it yourself Marilyn. We all want to see your courtroom competence
“Atty. Marilyn Mosby Now Says Freddie Gray’s Knife Isn’t Important To Case Against 6 Baltimore Cops”
Since when have facts EVER made a difference to liberals?
yes, the city says ‘do not allow our hearts to break’ even though ‘nothing is right and everything is wrong’ ... in the end ... we shall and say ‘Thanks!’
Who is this guy, Jackie Chiles?
It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous.
uh ... sure ....
truly ? that
Can’t you restrain a person who is a fleeing suspect?
What do we know about the judge who gets to preside over this lunacy?
more wishes than a thousand smiles can count for Free Republic ... One Sunday Morning Says It All!
Suspected of WHAT?
Fleeing at the sight of cops isn’t grounds for anything. I get nervous upon seeing cops, and have no encounter history beyond speeding tickets.
If Freddy has no knife....he’s not arrested, and he walks away. I don’t think they ever found an ounce of any drug on him. As I see it....the knife is one of the three key bits of the whole episode.
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