Did Baltimore State's Attorney purge employees based on politics?
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My Open Goodbye Letter to the State's Attorney's Office" (January 14 2015)
Dear friends & colleagues,
I had time to say goodbye to exactly five people on Friday, so if you’ll allow me, I’d like to say goodbye to all of you now. This goodbye is about advocating for those who have been unjustly treated, which is the mandate of our office and the mandate of these circumstances.
As many of you know, I was fired on Friday. Maybe I was fired because part of my job was to help our office hold ourselves accountable, to identify — on the basis of actual data — strong performance and areas for improvement. I also worry that I was fired because I supported Gregg Bernstein on election day at the same polling station that Councilman Nick Mosby had worked. Mr. Mosby and I shared our differences about the candidates that day, but I did not think this would come back to haunt me.
But I will be okay. I am more saddened and more troubled by the firings of so many others, half of whom were line [fine?] prosecutors. On her first day Ms. Mosby told the office she would focus on violent repeat offenders, as though we were not already doing that. (read the whole thing)
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Of course she did.
It is interesting that they talked about the "Coronation of the Queen" when she took over.
It reminds you of Obama. He is stickler about how everyone acts toward him. How we have to respect his office. Follow the proper protocol.
Well if you are a Jew that is....if you are a fool like Letterman or Kimmel you can bust on him all you want.
What is she going to do if a "Bronx jury" convicts the white cops but lets the black cops walk?
Especially since the driver who seems most at fault is a brother.
She just charged the white guys to put a little cream in the coffee so to speak.
Cold-hearted bitch.
Sure she's not a Dunham or a Robinson somehow?
Trooper York said...
What is she going to do if a "Bronx jury" convicts the white cops but lets the black cops walk?
Especially since the driver who seems most at fault is a brother.
They may all walk. Looks like our Freddie was a snitch and loved to put on a show to cover himself.
So that other guy may be telling the truth.
The "false arrest" charge gets tossed at the first hearing. Reportedly the knife was a spring loaded knife and is specifically listed as illegal.
But that doesn't even matter. If this dude is on parole then the fact that he had a concealed weapon is a parole violation and the cop had to arrest him.
So that is going to get thrown right out and was only a political ploy to satisfy the rioters.
After I say Mosby articulate her position on the probable cause of prosecuting these police officers. My first thought was, why 2nd degree murder for the driver? What could he have possibly done to warrant depraved heart 2nd degree murder. I just read that this woman has been in this position for 4 months. I also found out that she ran a separate investigation? How did she come to these conclusions so quickly. Granted, she appears to be a vindictive aggressor that is lopping off heads and getting rid of perceived enemies, but her appeal to the mob is disturbing. I'm still holding the police accountable, but these charges appear to be piled on so thick that the idea is, is that in order to get some modicum of a conviction, then a plea deal is forthcoming and certain charges will be dropped. Very disproportionate.
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While the charges seem absurd in degree, it's exactly the kind overcharging that cops and prosecutors do to average Joes everyday. If someone was killed accidentally under similar circumstances by group of citizens who were robbing a convenience store, then a similar set of charges would be piled up, and for many of the same reasons. That's how it's done now days.
How did she come to these conclusions so quickly.
She believes there wont be any price to pay for her should the charges prove baseless.
Makes me conclude maybe Mike Nifong would still be on the job had he been an African American DA.
She won't pay a price. The cops will apply and get a change of venue. If the charges are not thrown out by the direction of any half way competent judge. Then she will have someone to blame.
Whitey.
And another thing. Why didn't the case go to a grand jury?
She is a cute sistah-and a Dorchester girl!
My first apartment, after college, was in Dorchester-home of Donna Summer and Markie Mark.
The apartment I rented out was in Filene's Mansion on Pleasant Street. I roomed with a bitchy MIT queen. We paid only $1200.00 a month. She thought she knew everything. She was from Lincoln, which is fab, and I was from Wisconsin....sigh. She called me Ellie Mae-like in the Beverly Hillbillies.
My first job out of college paid 30k, could you imagine? I was constantly poor and still drove a Nissan Centra with Wisconsin license plates-Massholes would yell at me to go back to Idaho-it was devastating.
Check out this interview. Gets real testy about 3/4 of the way through.
http://wypr.org/post/new-baltimore-city-states-attorney-marilyn-mosby
It's that pesky past tense, April, and this nuisance of getting everything to line up by tense just so. Grateful it's not pluperfect or it'd be all have, had, had have hads.
I used the power vested in me *pumps muscles* and changed it.
Sounds like Mr Mosby is the shot-caller and Mrs Mosby is the spokesmodel who sells it in front of the cameras. Kind of a reverse Valerie-Barry sitch. I tuned in when Mrs Mosby was in the middle of her speech about inducting the six cops and I thought I had stumbled on some sort of bizarro high school graduation speech. Not exactly the presentation of a seasoned prosecutor there by Mrs Mosby. OTOH, she (or someone) clearly has no problem whatsoever throwing, no trebucheting, other public servants under the ole bus. The progressive infighting and jockeying about for the best position at the trough probably distracts and detracts from serving the public good in any number of ways (waitaminit, wots this public good thing?). Goes unreported of course.
Indicting ...
She's photogenic and has poise in front of the cameras. She looks like she comes from a comfortable background. I don't think she grew up in a neighborhood where guys like Freddie hang around on the street corner. So she can be sympathetic. She doesn't have to inhale all the pathogens guys like Freddie release into the atmosphere......The cops obviously screwed up. They delivered a dead body to the station house. That shouldn't happen. I don't know the details and circumstances of their misconduct, but I do know that in the next week there will be a few more murdered blacks in Baltimore and no one, least of all Mosby, will make a big deal of the deaths........Freddie was destined to come to a bad end. Beyond that, anyone who spent any amount of time in his company was also bound to suffer. Maybe he would kill or be killed by another drug dealer, or maybe he would beat his girlfriend senseless, but bad things were bound to happen to those who spent time in his company. The surprise here is not that he suffered an early death, but that he leaves behind an estate that's worth millions.
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