Defense lawyers for Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby levelled new accusations against the U.S. Attorney’s Office in a host of legal papers filed Friday night seeking to have the indictment against her dismissed.
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.
In a trio of pretrial pleadings, Mosby’s lawyers asked a federal judge to throw her case out, disqualify Wise from prosecuting her and require the government to provide more evidence to support the charges against her. A host of attached exhibits offer new insights into the year-long tax investigation into Mosby and her husband, City Council President Nick Mosby.
Marilyn Mosby is charged with two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements on loan applications to buy a pair of properties in Florida. Nick Mosby is not charged with any crimes.
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.
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