Mosby’s attorneys accused Maryland U.S. Attorney Erek Barron and Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise, the lead prosecutor on Mosby’s case, of wielding prejudice against Mosby to bring a discriminatory indictment, claimed the prosecutors ignored evidence of Mosby’s innocence and said the government failed to show that Mosby knowingly engaged in the criminal behavior of which she’s accused.
The two-term state’s attorney has maintained she is innocent, and has described her prosecution as politically motivated. The papers filed by her attorneys largely echo their public comments about the case, but provide more details in support of their claims of prosecutorial impropriety. Federal prosecutors have not yet filed legal responses to the motions from Mosby’s defense but wrote in a status report Friday they planned to ask the judge to “preclude personal attacks on Government counsel.” Neither a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office or Barron immediately responded to requests for comment Saturday.
Thompson claimed Barron brought up rumors about the state’s attorney’s “sex life” and said “I don’t get how she got where she is.” Thompson said she was paraphrasing, but claimed Barron continued while working with Thompson to “tell me how much he disliked working with State’s Attorney Mosby, and how he didn’t like her style and approach.”
A. Scott Bolden, Mosby’s lead attorney, raised concerns with the Department of Justice in March, filing complaints asking for Wise and Schenning to be yanked from the tax investigation. The department’s Office of Procedural Responsibility declined to remove the veteran prosecutors, saying there was no evidence to support Bolden’s claims and that he could make the case to a judge during litigation.
If Marilyn Mosby thinks the prosecutors don't like her, she is probably right. But that doesn't make her less guilty. In fact, she sounds pretty stupid if she lies on legal documents and doesn't review her tax returns.
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