Garbis is presiding over a civil suit. I have no particular ax to grind here, but this decision doesn’t make sense to me. Investigation is part of a prosecutor’s job. If the prosecution is vulnerable to suit for the investigation phase, that’s a problem for all prosecutors, good and bad. This sort of issue is better handled as a complaint to the bar, and the penalty should be disbarmarment.
I beg to differ. The punishment should be capital. IMHO, any politician should spend twice the time they spent in office in jail, and some deserve a harsher form of justice. This is one of those latter cases.
If there were no punishment for crime how many more crimes would there be?
No, a prosecutor is responsible for how an investigation is conducted (ethically, legally and even morally). The “buck stops” with her
This seems to be one step below “prosecutorial malfeasance or misconduct” but since it is a civil issue, it still goes to misconduct and possibly the ignoring of exculpatory evidence.
The whole Gray affair was a miscarriage of justice for the police officers involved, and was handled by both the Mayor and Mosby (as well as the Deputy Sheriff) in a very prejudicial manner, if not an outright anti-police campaign.
Freddy Gray initiated the whole affair by his own actions. The police acted on a valid suspicion that he was up to something because some of them knew he as small time drug dealer.
The only good thing that can come of this affair, besides getting rid of the Mayor, Mosby and Cogen, is to improve safety conditions in a police van. Perhaps in death Gray finally did something good for others instead of dealer death to them via drugs.
Only time will tell.
They have plausibly alleged that Mosby, in her press conference, read false statements in the Application that she had created and knew were false for such purposes as “appeasing the public and quelling the riots,” getting the benefit of national attention and media coverage, and promoting her political agenda.
(page 24, Gabris ruling, pdf link)
As rest of the nation saw what it was then.
And as case after case against the officers charged went against Mosby, then rest of the case(s) simply dropped by, showed that Mosby and her investigators DID NOT do their jobs, or they have other motives to find their conclusions for persecuting these officers. And that is a bad precedence that needs to be quashed, and consequences born by those involved.
The issue is that she proclaimed them guilty before an investigation.