Baltimore city state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby’s motion for a gag order in the Freddie Gray case was denied Monday because the prosecutor filed paperwork in the wrong court.
Mosby’s May 14 motion, filed in Baltimore’s circuit court, was intended to block witnesses, attorneys and police from speaking publicly about the Gray case. Six officers have been indicted on a total of 28 felony charges related to Gray’s April 12 arrest. The 25-year-old Gray died April 19. His death was ruled a homicide.
Judge Charles Peters slapped down Mosby’s motion, citing jurisdictional issues, The Baltimore Sun reported. The cases for the six officers were still on the district court’s docket when the motion was filed. The cases were only moved to the circuit court on May 21, after a grand jury indicted the officers.
It is unclear whether Mosby’s office will file a new request in circuit court.
“We’re not going to litigate this case in the media and discuss our trial strategy,” Rochelle Ritchie, a spokeswoman for Mosby’s office, told The Sun when asked whether a new motion is forthcoming.
The Daily Caller sought comment from Ritchie on what led the office to file the motion in the wrong court in the first place. She again declined to “litigate the case in the media” or discuss trial strategy.
The faulty filing is not the state’s attorney’s office’s first procedural misstep.
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5 comments:
She needs to be fired for incompetence!
But she comes from five generations of law enforcement. How can she be so STUPID?
She needs to be gagged
Duh, filed in wrong court because maybe she does not know what she's doing. She's just a lot of mouth like the mayor of that city.
What do you expect from someone who was put in office solely because she is black. When affirmative action prevails we ALL lose.
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