The ongoing mountain of evidence continues to accumulate that Baltimore Prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, intentionally manipulated the Freddie Gray investigation to construct a false case against the Baltimore Six officers.
Two significant issues. #1) Mosby was denied a search warrant, and then her office went shopping for a Judge who would approve one, a legal no-no. #2) The affidavit for the Search Warrant itself reflects the police merely detained Gray, until they discovered and illegal knife in his pocket – then he was placed under arrest.
To the second point, remember Mosby initially proclaimed the police never had reason to arrest Freddie Gray; yet now in her own affidavit -in her own words- to a judge, it is revealed the police did have cause to arrest.
BALTIMORE – Defense attorneys for the officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray are accusing prosecutors of misconduct by “judge-shopping” to get a search warrant approved.
In the latest filing in the case, the defense attorneys cite a police memo turned over by prosecutors that indicates an April 24 application for a warrant to search the officers’ phones was rejected by a District Court judge, who found it lacked probable cause.
Three days later, an officer writes in the memo, a prosecutor called and said he or she had found a judge who had agreed to sign the warrants.
It’s not clear what, if anything, investigators found on their phones.
The defense attorneys say taking a search warrant application that has been denied to another judge is improper. They want a hearing to determine whether any evidence obtained in the search should be suppressed.
Prosecutors have not responded to the motion, which was filed Monday. The office declined to comment on the allegation.
[…] The police memo that documents the prosecutor’s actions is dated May 12 — 11 days after State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby filed charges against the officers. The officer wrote that he or she decided to write the memo after advising an unknown person about the “events surrounding the issuing of the warrants.”
In the affidavit, authorities say Gray was detained, then searched for weapons, at which point a “spring-loaded knife” was found.
When she charged some of the officers with false arrest, Mosby said the knife was legal under state law. Her office has since said Gray was detained falsely “well before the arresting officers knew he possessed a knife.” (read more)
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