Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby
Worth 1000 words.
Posted on 03/18/2020 12:30:26 PM PDT by lightman
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby ordered her staff Wednesday to drop all pending criminal charges against anyone arrested for drug possession, attempted distribution, prostitution, trespassing, minor traffic offenses, open container, and urinating in public.
Mosby said she is taking the action in an effort to reduce the threat of a coronavirus outbreak behind bars. These crimes pose no risk to public safety and the defendants would be released before trial in normal conditions, she wrote in a memo to prosecutors.
“An outbreak in prison or jails could potentially be catastrophic,” she wrote them. “Now is not the time for a piecemeal approach where we go into court and argue one one by one for the release of at-risk individuals."
Many of those whose cases will be dropped are not currently in jail.
In addition, Mosby sent a letter to Gov. Larry Hogan urging him to set free all inmates over the age of 60 in state prisons, anyone approved for parole and all prisoners scheduled to complete their sentence in the next year.
The move answers calls from advocacy groups and public defenders for precautions to limit the chance of a coronavirus outbreak in prisons and jails.
“We are grateful that our criminal justice partners recognized these concerns and collaborated to reduce the jail population and save the lives of our most vulnerable clients," wrote Kirsten Gettys Downs, the district public defender for Baltimore, in an email. “Ongoing detention during this public health crisis threatens the lives of our clients and creates conditions that will exacerbate the spread of this pandemic."
Elsewhere, such efforts are catching on. Sheriffs in Los Angeles, Virginia Beach and Chicago have released vulnerable, nonviolent offenders to trim prison populations amid the pandemic.
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Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby
Worth 1000 words.
Time for citizens to take matters into their own hands in these cities that refuse to do their duty.
Because prostitutes and needle sharers totally don’t spread diseases...
Like prostitution or using drugs won’t transmit the virus.
This is what they should clamp down on more than ever.
Idiots.
Get ready to watch a city burn.
How much?
“Because prostitutes and needle sharers totally don’t spread diseases...”
Sharing pipes, bongs, cigarettes, not just needles.
I will ask the same thing again
what is the point of making this public?
Why wear such a ridiculous ratty wig?? Not quite as bad as Rep. Raggedy Ayanna Pressley
Like prostitution or using drugs won’t transmit the virus.
This is what they should clamp down on more than ever.
Idiots./
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this is the left for you. open borders where people can come and go with no screening, criminals go free without check, yet this CAUSES the issue, not helps solve it. effing destructive jackasses.
Was it ever rebuilt from last time?
All of which lower immunity and spread disease.
OMG this has become insanity, SO American citizens have been demanded to stay locked down in their homes YET prostitutes can walk the streets, GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!!!
Philadelphia and Baltimore really don’t care about living in the First World, do they? I guess it’s a jungle out thee.
Gee... Philly... Baltimore... and a couple other democrat-infested cities all doing the same thing.
Almost like they coordinated... nah, couldn’t be. Nuh uh. Nope. Nuttin’ to see here...
The prostitution is what spreads the virus to these polititians
one of them was hitting on me in the airplane. i was like , why a pretty young woman gives my old ugly face the attention? yep, the pimps move them around cities
Yeah, you can’t go to the movies, but you can go to K Street after 10pm.
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