Marilyn Mosby is maintaining her innocence a day after a federal indictment was filed, accusing the Baltimore state’s attorney of perjury and other crimes.
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Marilyn Mosby is maintaining her innocence a day after a federal indictment was filed, accusing the Baltimore state’s attorney of perjury and other crimes. On Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland announced a federal grand jury had indicted Mosby,41, on four federal charges of perjury and making false mortgage applications relating to the purchases of two vacation homes in Florida. „I am innocent of the charges that have been levied against me and I intend to fight with every ounce in my being,“ Mosby said as she read from a prepared statement in downtown Baltimore on Friday. She didn’t take questions from reporters. The indictment is likely going to be a major shadow on Mosby’s career. These charges come as she seeks a third term as Baltimore State’s Attorney. She aligned herself with criminal justice reform advocates early in her time in Baltimore’s top prosecutorial office and reached national prominence in 2015 in the criminal case against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray. Gray, a Black man, died a week after being taken into custody. His death triggered demonstrations against police brutality. None of those officers was convicted. Mosby said the federal investigation is retribution for the Gray case as well as other reform policies she’s pursued during her tenure in the city. „Ever since I walked down the steps of the war memorial on May 1, announced charges against six police officers in the killing of Freddie Gray, I have had a target on my back,“ she said.
