All Charges Dropped in Baltimore's Freddie Gray cases

To be fair, Unas didn't post the article about Detroit. I will also bring out that I listened to Marilyn Moseby yesterday talking about the dropped charges. She was very angry and she mentioned that Detective, not by name, and spoke about the notes that were given to the defense. She still believes that she was right to bring charges.
Of course she was angry. There's a petition Firestone have her disbarred and the officers are suing her.
I'm also a little confused why she's so angry that defendants had the right to choose a jury trial or a bench trial. This has always been the case in criminal law.
 
I will also bring out that I listened to Marilyn Moseby yesterday talking about the dropped charges. She was very angry and she mentioned that Detective, not by name, and spoke about the notes that were given to the defense. She still believes that she was right to bring charges.
I looked for, but could not find, her comments about notes being given to the defense. That presumably would have been during discovery -- the court process which allows the defense to learn what evidence the prosecution has. What did Mosby say about the notes?
 
Of course she was angry. There's a petition Firestone have her disbarred and the officers are suing her.
I'm also a little confused why she's so angry that defendants had the right to choose a jury trial or a bench trial. This has always been the case in criminal law.
It's the same thing as a baseball player throwing his bat after striking out again in a big game. She went 0-4, with some really ugly swings.
 
I looked for, but could not find, her comments about notes being given to the defense. That presumably would have been during discovery -- the court process which allows the defense to learn what evidence the prosecution has. What did Mosby say about the notes?

Here is a transcript that she mentions the notes in her press conference about the dropped charges.

'By not executing search warrants pertaining to text messages among the police officers involved in the case, creating videos to disprove the state’s case without our knowledge, creating notes that were drafted after the case was launched to contradict the medical examiner’s conclusions, turning these notes over to defense attorneys moments prior to turning them over to the state, and yet doing it in the middle of trial.'

She blames the lead detective for losing the case.
 
Here is a transcript that she mentions the notes in her press conference about the dropped charges.
Thanks. Interesting political theater.

'By not executing search warrants pertaining to text messages among the police officers involved in the case,
This one is pretty hard to believe. A search warrant is a legal order by a judge directing the police to search a specific place for specific evidence. I can't imagine any law enforcement agency refusing to serve a search warrant! And if they did, what did she do about it...whine? She should have locked someone up if this claim is true. If it really happened and she didn't lock somebody up, she was shirking her duty as a prosecutor.
creating videos to disprove the state’s case without our knowledge, creating notes that were drafted after the case was launched to contradict the medical examiner’s conclusions, turning these notes over to defense attorneys moments prior to turning them over to the state, and yet doing it in the middle of trial.'
Well, there are several big issues with these claims:
  • Are they true? Or just the fabrication of attorneys facing disbarment
  • Were any of these things introduced into evidence? If not, they had no bearing on the outcome of the cases -- so what is the point of bringing them up? Oh right, to divert attention away from her sloppy work.

She blames the lead detective for losing the case.
Of course she does. But the lead detective didn't file the six cases, did she? :sad2:
 
Were any of these things introduced into evidence? If not, they had no bearing on the outcome of the cases -- so what is the point of bringing them up? Oh right, to divert attention away from her sloppy work.

I think they were. I first saw this on another site I keep track of. Then after I looked up articles from the Baltimore Sun. They all tell that the lead Detective, Dawnyell Taylor, got four typewritten pages to read before the Grand Jury. She said that there were distortions and inaccuracies in those pages and since she couldn't explain this during her testimony in the Grand Jury, she gave the notes to the Defense. During one trial the prosecutor brought up that they tried to get her removed, and she answered that it was only a request, and that they (Police Department) kept her where she was.
 
I think they were. I first saw this on another site I keep track of. Then after I looked up articles from the Baltimore Sun. They all tell that the lead Detective, Dawnyell Taylor, got four typewritten pages to read before the Grand Jury. She said that there were distortions and inaccuracies in those pages and since she couldn't explain this during her testimony in the Grand Jury, she gave the notes to the Defense. During one trial the prosecutor brought up that they tried to get her removed, and she answered that it was only a request, and that they (Police Department) kept her where she was.
Do you have any links to that info. I don't see how notes as described would ever be admitted into evidence in a trial. Or why a prosecutor would bring up his/her dissatisfaction with the lead investigator. What does that have to do with anything? That's completely irrelevant.
 

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