marilyn j mosby
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Baltimore authorities chronically struggle to overcome a strong anti-informant culture.
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Michelle Wilson, an attorney who was hired to serve as a Baltimore Police Department chief, will remain with the attorney general's office
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Michelle Wilson, the Baltimore Police deputy commissioner whose hiring was announced just two days ago, is not joining the department after all.
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Johns Hopkins University students who protested a new private police force by locking down an administration building at the Homewood campus will essentially get away with breaking the law.
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Setting aside marijuana possession convictions is the kind of wise choice that can turn more Marylanders into Libertarians.
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There is still a way to vacate marijuana possession cases in Baltimore, despite rulings by two judges that have prevented Baltimore State's Attorney Maryland Mosby from doing so.
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Baltimore's state's attorney went too far in asking court to overturn hundreds of marijuana possession convictions.
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Judges have denied a request from Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to dismiss convictions in nearly 5,000 cases of marijuana possession.
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If Baltimore City's state's attorney really "hears" the people's will, she'll look to prosecute Catherine Pugh.
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It has been two weeks since a serious allegation was made that Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby gave false testimony under oath. No elected official has stepped forward to suggest that the allegation should be investigated as possible perjury. Why not?
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To truly reform Baltimore’s justice system and protect black communities from systematic persecution and criminalization, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby must refuse to prosecute all non-violent, low-level offenses that unnecessarily clog the courts – not just marijuana possession.
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A Baltimore jury sided with Marilyn Mosby Friday and found the Baltimore state’s attorney had not unlawfully fired a city prosecutor four years ago.
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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby took the witness stand Thursday to defend her firing of a former city prosecutor, saying the woman was dismissive of crime victims.
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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and former city prosecutor Keri Borzilleri worked together as friendly colleagues before Mosby won election and fired Borzilleri. The two made opening arguments Tuesday in Borzilleri's suit arguing her firing was politically motivated.
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The trial is to begin Monday in a lawsuit brought by a former Baltimore prosecutor who claims she was unjustly fired by State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby over politics.
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Taylor Davis, 18, who was fatally shot Monday night in Midtown Edmondson in West Baltimore, was awesome ... just a ball of joy. If anybody needed help, she would help.”
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Baltimore struggled with whether 16 pounds of marijuana is a crime or not.
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After wire-tapping Keith and Valeria Smith’s cell phones, peering into their Google search histories and outlining apparent inconsistencies in their stories about the night Keith’s wife Jacquelyn was fatally stabbed, Baltimore Police charged the couple on a growing pile of circumstantial evidence.
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North Carolina man was caught up in the confusion of Baltimore’s new policy on prosecuting people found possessing cannabis, his attorney said Thursday.
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In January, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby filed a lawsuit asking the Baltimore circuit court to overturn 4,800 convictions for possession of marijuana. her suit is an affront to the criminal justice system and is nothing more than a publicity stunt.
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The story of Jacquelyn Smith being killed after giving money to a panhandler in East Baltimore played created widespread, and unwarranted, hysteria about the threats posed by the homeless, officials said.
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State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby led a panel discussion Wednesday night about her new policy to stop prosecuting such cases in Baltimore.
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An open letter signed by 14 local advocacy groups is urging Mayor Catherine Pugh to clarify Baltimore’s inconsistent enforcement of cannabis laws by directing the new police commissioner to stop arresting people for low-level marijuana offenses.
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Baltimore attorney Ivan Bates once represented Jason Hodge and Andre Haydel. On Friday, he learned the men were both killed in Baltimore’s latest wave of violence.
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Mothers of Murdered Sons and Daughters is calling on Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh to end arrests for marijuana possession and to prioritize homicide investigations.
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Pledging more help for the victims and witnesses of crimes, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced Thursday a series of TV and radio commercials intended to encourage people to come to court and testify.
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Marilyn Mosby is asking for greater discretionary authority and that would be a big mistake.
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Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby wants to overrule judges based on what she perceives as bad evidence, which her office presented, due to the Gun Trace Task Force scandal.
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Calling it a killing committed in the “most brutal fashion,” a Baltimore judge on Monday sentenced 22-year-old Terrell Gibson to 80 years in prison for the murder of Dion Smith, a 24-year-old father of three and the brother of former Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith.
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Baltimore state's attorney made the right call in ending prosecution for pot possession. Now, she can use resources to solve violent crimes.
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Baltimore's top prosecutor, and The Sun, are ignoring the serious harm that marijuana is doing to their community.
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Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has said her office will no longer prosecute pot possession — a bold decision has met with a stubborn and unfortunate insistence by law enforcement leadership that arrests will continue.
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Baltimore's top prosecutor has filed a rarely used legal petition intended to vacate 3,778 convictions for possession of marijuana, arguing an extraordinary legal strategy is necessary to "right an extraordinary wrong."
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Interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle said Thursday that arrests for marijuana possession are never the focus of police patrols in the city, but are sometimes — and will continue to be — the outcome in instances where officers are confronted with illegal amounts of the drug.
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Marilyn Mosby’s decision to no longer prosecute anyone arrested for marijuana possession can go a long way in addressing the racial disparities that have disproportionately landed African Americans in jail with criminal records, despite the fact that they use the drug at the same rate as whites.
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Baltimore City's state's attorney is correct not to prosecute for possession of pot.
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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced Tuesday her office would cease prosecuting people for possessing marijuana regardless of quantity or criminal history.
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How people are reacting to Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s surprise announcement Tuesday that her office will no longer prosecute marijuana possession cases.
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Kamala Harris, a U.S. senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump’s nominees, has entered the Democratic presidential race. Harris' campaign says it will make its headquarters in Baltimore, with another office in Oakland, California.
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Sources familiar with U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris' plans tell The Baltimore Sun that if she runs for president, she'll put her campaign headquarters in Baltimore. The California Democrat is expected to announce her 2020 plans soon. Harris' Senate office declined to discuss her plans.
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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby filed a motion Thursday to revoke bail for a man charged with murder at a bar in Fells Point.
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Baltimore police say they arrested 11 people behind the violent “Black Magic” drug crew and seized guns, cash and more than 400 gel caps of fentanyl.
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Baltimore County authorities seek dismissal of claims against them in class-action sexual assault lawsuit.
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Baltimore's leadership void isn't just about the current mayor - the alternatives aren't so hot either.
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After four years of 300-plus homicides, Baltimoreans should be worried and impatient with efforts to reduce crime
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Clarence Shipley Jr. was exonerated Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore Circuit Court of robbing and killing a 29-year-old chef in Cherry Hill nearly three decades ago.
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With the number of fentanyl overdoses soaring in Maryland, federal prosecutors say they plan to bring more state drug cases to federal court, where penalties are stiffer.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an appeal from five Baltimore Police officers in a case in which they alleged they were wrongfully prosecuted for the death of Freddie Gray by Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby.
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A Baltimore Police officer was found guilty by a judge of fabricating evidence in a case in which his own body-camera footage showed him placing drugs in a vacant lot and then acting as if he had just discovered them.
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A city police officer was acquitted Thursday of first-degree assault in a Christmas Eve incident in Northeast Baltimore by a Circuit Court judge following a three-day bench trial, his defense attorney and the city police officers’ union said.
