Posted on 06/04/2015 6:47:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The story coming to us out of Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray just gets stranger and stranger. Once State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby had brought a gaggle of charges against the six police officers involved in the incident, the defense immediately moved to have her removed from the case over possible conflict of interest issues. Since that time, Mosby’s office seems to have gone into a circle the wagons mentality and has been pushing back against both the police and the media. That pattern took an even more curious turn this week when the autopsy of Freddie Gray was concluded and Mosby immediately sought to keep it under wraps.
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby plans to seek a protective order blocking the release of Freddie Gray’s autopsy and other “sensitive” documents as she prosecutes the six police officers involved in his arrest.
Mosby discussed that intention in a court filing Monday, in which she also asked the court for more time to respond to defense motions that she and her office be removed from the case and that the case be tried outside of Baltimore.
The move is the latest effort by Mosby’s office to restrict information in the high-profile case. Her office has also sought a gag order, which would prevent those involved in the case from discussing it in public, and broken with tradition by not providing the autopsy report to Baltimore Police.
Mosby’s claims that she doesn’t want to be “baited into litigating this case through the media” makes less sense than anything we’ve heard thus far. This is the same State’s Attorney who was calling something in the range of four to five press conferences a day while their investigation was ongoing and giving CNN painstaking graphics and timelines of each and every movement of the van that Gray was in, along with details about each of the officers that barely stopped short of providing hair and urine samples. Now, if the evidence against the officers is as strong as she claims and her case is a bullet proof one, then surely the autopsy report would support everything she’s been saying, no? And if so, such exoneration would surely calm some of the media and police department clamor against her. So why the sudden hush hush treatment and gag orders?
One of the lawyers for the accused cops suspects he knows the answer.
One of the defense attorneys, Ivan Bates, said in an interview that the effort to get a protective order is a sign that “there is something in that autopsy report that they are trying to hide.”
“Mrs. Mosby is the one who did an announcement discussing what she said the evidence was in a nationally televised speech, and now that it is time to turn over the evidence, to ask for a protective order is beyond disingenuous,” said Bates, who represents Sgt. Alicia White. “It’s as if she wants to do everything to make sure our clients do not get a fair trial.”
As I mentioned on Twitter when this story first broke, Mosby is looking more and more like a poker player who’s sitting on a pair of threes and facing an opponent who just went all in on her. Unfortunately, she may be too heavily invested in the pot to fold at this point. Right from the beginning there have been many observers besides me who were getting the impression that Mosby is a very ambitious politician with a desire to move up the ladder fast and who was suddenly handed a career making case before she’d even unpacked her things at her new office. Nothing wrong with that whatsoever. But if you fumble a big case like this it can be a long, hard fall.
From what I can see, there’s no reason to suspect that there’s any sort of conspiracy or malevolence going on at the office of the State’s Attorney. Assuming that Mosby harbors some sort of anti-cop bias without hard proof of it is unfair. But at a minimum we may be seeing a lack of experience leading to some very poor decision making under a great deal of scrutiny and national media pressure.
I don’t think she can withhold the report from the defense due to the rules of discovery; I believe she is trying to keep it from being released to the public or trying to delay the discovery process. Eventually, the defense will get the report. Lessons learned from Ferguson.
Oh, I agree with you - I think she’s trying to avoid more public criticism, not avoid the defense attorneys - that’s a train collision she can’t avoid. She’s under intense public criticism by some pretty reputable people in the legal sphere for how she’s (mis)handled all this and I think she’s trying to avoid any more. My speculation is that releasing the autopsy report will likely add to that criticism and she’s fairly desperate get out from under the scrutiny, questioning of her motives (political) and calls for her to be recused & for changes in venue, thus she’s trying to keep it hushed up.
Ha! Made me look it up. Not a word I’ve seen much.
Eventually she is going to have to release the autopsy report to the defense team. She probably wants a gag order in place first before she releases it to them so they are prevented from releasing it to the media when it shows Gray had more drugs in his system than a 5 alarm system has alarm bells.What proof is there that Gray had a fractured anything other than the press reporting it before an autopsy was done. Was the fracture an urban myth that was sensationalized by the media causing these riots on behalf of just another street punk who od ed in a paddy wagon? Lots of questions to be answered.
She's definitely scrambling for all the reasons you listed, but eventually, won't those same issues catch up to her? Is she just delaying the inevitable?
I generally like Rick Scott as Florida Governor, but he failed big time on this case...
He should have removed the prosecutor Angela Corey after she fired Ben Kruidbos for calling out her deceit in hiding discovery during the Zimmerman case
Bet the autopsy says he was infected with HIV from intravenous injection of heroin and had brittle bones (Osteoporosis0 from HIV medication.
She is over her head, but she would be there even as a first day law student. Obviously an affirmative action admittance to whatever law school she attended.
Good guess.
Someone inside will publish the autopsy, like the video of the gentle giant beating the store clerk came out. Can’t wait to read it.
Mosby is toast.
Affirmative Action in action.
I think it would be a good time for Miz Mozby to take another position, say, as a lobbyist. She should probably retain a criminal defense attorney, also, as well as several civil defense attorneys. Miz Mozby has an eventful future in prospect.
Drowning man clutching at straws. It’s time to start lashing out and getting lots of other officers arrested in a series of web-of-conspiracy charges.
Drowning man clutching at straws. It’s time to start lashing out and getting lots of other officers arrested in a series of web-of-conspiracy charges. Nifong showed the way as well as those Prosecutors up in Washington State a few decades ago who prosecuted everyone in sight in their day-care sex slave prosecutions as did Janet Reno in Miami.
The facts don’t matter.
Only the narrative matters.
If the facts don’t support the narrative, hide them.
Yes, but she’s going to ride this horse until it drops dead. She was pretty much a no-name, but this case is making her with the radical Left/Dems. The Leftists will take care of her with something nice and cushy. She’s following the “Obama Model” - doesn’t matter the demonstrated incompetence and ruin he leaves behind ... he’ll be celebrated, feted, and rake in tons of $$ because the great majority of the Left adores him. IMO, of course :-)
Who ever heard of withholding an autopsy??
P.S. I believe Crystal is serving life for killing her boyfriend.
Unfortunately, you are correct. Like the mafia, the Dems reward loyalty.
I remember that, many lives ruined in that witch hunt.
My guess is that when he slipped into that building (caught on video), that is when he swallowed the heroin (or whatever he had on him).
Then, while in the police van, he went unconscious and hit his head on the rear door bolts, which may have caused the damage to his neck. IIRC, he was in a coma for a week before he died.
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