Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced Tuesday her office would cease prosecuting people for possessing marijuana regardless of the quantity or the person's criminal history.
Calling the move monumental for justice in Baltimore, Mosby also requested the courts vacate convictions in nearly 5,000 cases of marijuana possession.
"When I ask myself: Is the enforcement and prosecution of marijuana possession making us safer as a city?" Mosby said, "the answer is emphatically 'no.'"
Mosby follows district attorneys in Manhattan and Philadelphia who have scaled back or outright ended marijuana prosecutions. Maryland lawmakers decriminalized possession of up to 10 grams of marijuana in 2014.
But she also stood alone, politically: No police and no other city officials joined her at the announcement.
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When "first time" offenders are not prosecuted, all offenses will be "first time"!
ReplyDeleteWhy would we expect anything less? Mosby is a disgrace to the law profession with how she handled the Freddie Gray case. Getting a little tired of trying to deflect blame from the real perpetrators; statistics don't lie and if the color does not suit your narrative to freaking bad. The likes of Mosby and the NAACP have done nothing to cure the problem.
ReplyDeleteShe might be an idiot, but she got this one right.
ReplyDeleteSo her plan is to not obey the Maryland laws....just make a executive (don't mean to suggest she would make a pimple on a executive's rear) decision. What have we become today? If if doesn't suit me, well hell, I will do it my way.
ReplyDeleteD-A-M-N just throw your hands up and say "I GIVE UP" why don't you. Let the inmates run the institution called charm city. If you are able get away from that shithole you call Salisbury. Had recent visit to see family and your city mirrors Baltimore in the worst ways
ReplyDeleteOf course BPD wasn't there. They're losing an important tool used to open the door to arresting for other crimes. It's like the proverbial broken tail light that enables a traffic stop.
ReplyDeleteOf course not, they want to harm you, hurt you abuse your rights and lock you up to help further their careers... Why else do they do it??? Clearly the cops were planting evidence on people for a reason, and that is the questions you should be asking, why do cops want to or feel that they should or have to do that to people... And anyone who argues cops are good, and are here to protect and serve and are hero's, answer me this, what good kind of hero do you know who gets paid to do this to people and happily fist bumps and laughs after they try to ruin your life, if that is your hero, then I bet another hero of your is the devil... I don't give a god damn if a cop supposedly says he puts his life on the line, so do the military and so so iron workers who erect buildings, but I don't see you praising them or sucking on their ass cheeks like you do for cops... And they are not out getting paid and willfully hurting people, killing people and trying to ruin lives, and then say they have a right to murder you for any reason or no reason just so they can go home alive... Imagine if the city was shut down and they did a man hunt for a murder of an average citizen like they do for a cop killer... Just imagine... SO again, I don't give a god damn what you think, cops are corrupt, evil and want to harm you... What law says they can and have a right to murder you to go home alive??? Still having found one and no one can seem to find one, yet you all let it happen and wonder why the same cop keeps doing what he does costing cities millions in law suits, which your taxes will raise to cover it all, and let cops off the hook for murdering people in the back running away becasue a cop is a cowards ass pussy...
ReplyDeleteMore evidence to support their name:
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Makes a lot of sense.
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