The Only Person Convicted after Baltimore Cops Murdered Freddie Gray was the DA: Elite Whites 'Kaepernicked' Marilyn Mosby's Career and Supreme Ct won’t Hear Her Perjury Appeal in Latest Setback

LAW ONLY AS AN ENEMY TO BLACKS. From [HERE] The U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby‘s appeal of her perjury convictions as the high court began its new nine-month term.

Mosby, 46, had filed a petition with the court after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the former prosecutor’s perjury convictions, vacated her mortgage fraud conviction and declined to hear the matter again.

Maryland Federal Public Defender James Wyda, who represented Mosby, declined to comment Monday, as did a spokesperson for the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In a statement, Mosby said that she was “deeply disappointed” by the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case but “not surprised.”

“The political implications surrounding my case have been evident from the beginning,” she said, adding that she was “unjustly and politically targeted” for prosecution.

At the end of her second term as state’s attorney, Mosby was charged with federal perjury and mortgage fraud offenses stemming from two withdrawals from her retirement account and purchase of two Florida homes. The Democratic prosecutor was found to have obtained favorable tax terms on retirement withdrawals by falsely certifying that the coronavirus pandemic caused her to suffer “adverse financial consequences” and made a false statement on a mortgage application.

She was ultimately convicted of two counts of perjury and one of mortgage fraud after two trials. The Fourth Circuit overturned the mortgage fraud verdict on the grounds that prosecutors had not properly established Maryland as the proper venue.

In her petition to the nation’s highest court for a writ of certiorari, Mosby’s attorneys argued that the language on the withdrawal forms that led to her perjury convictions was “fundamentally ambiguous” and that reasonable people confronted with the phrase “adverse financial consequences” could have understood the term differently. The Fourth Circuit found that the term was “adequately clear”; Mosby’s petition argued that it was only defined at her trial, years after she made the retirement withdrawals.

“A Supreme Court denial does not transform an unprecedented prosecution into a just one, nor does it answer the serious questions about fairness, consistency, and equal treatment that this case has exposed,” Mosby said.

Since her 2022 indictment, Mosby has argued that she was unfairly targeted for prosecution, calling the investigation a “crusade” to ruin her political career as retribution for disrupting the status quo. Mosby received national attention when her office pursued criminal charges against the Baltimore Police officers involved in Freddie Gray’s in-custody death, shortly after she was elected.

She sought a pardon from then-President Joe Biden after her convictions, an effort backed by the NAACP and other civil rights organizations. In a joint letter to Biden, the groups cited Mosby’s status as a “model for progressive prosecutors” as the reason federal officials pursued charges during Donald Trump‘s first presidency.

“What remains deeply troubling is that I am, to this day, the only person convicted under a provision of a vague statute that has never been legally defined by either the IRS or Congress,” she said Monday. Mosby said she “unequivocally” stands by her innocence.

Despite her convictions, Mosby’s law license is still active. After she was convicted, the Maryland Supreme Court ordered a pause to Attorney Grievance Commission proceedings against her during the course of her appeals. She said Monday that she would “continue every available legal avenue to protect my law license, defend my reputation, and ensure that my case is not the final word on what justice looks like.”