Former Democrat Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby guilty on 2 counts of perjury

Former Baltimore City State's Attorney and staunch Democrat Marilyn Mosby, was convicted on two counts of perjury by a federal jury.

Mosby was raised by her grandparents in Dorchester, Boston. And in spite of both of her parents being police officers, she seemed to have a dislike for cops as we can see in the Freddie Gray case in 2015 when she charged six police officers who had arrested Gray prior to his death caused by injuries while he was in custody. Some, like David Jaros an associate professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, said that she may have overcharged the police in this case, but agreed that this was quite typical in criminal cases that do not involve police. Also, anonymous police department sources said that Baltimore's investigation didn't support some of the charges brought against the cops, as reported by CNN.

As far as how she viewed crime and law, in January 2019 she announced that her office wouldn't any longer prosecute people for marijuana possession, no matter the quantity. She announced that she would vacate about 5,000 marijuana possession convictions. The following year, Democrat Mosby, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Mosby announced that her office would no longer pursue charges related to drug possession, prostitution, minor traffic violations and other low-level offenses in order to halt the spread of the coronavirus in Baltimore prisons. In March 2021, she announced that she would make it permanent, adding that the temporary 'experiment' didn't lead to more serious crimes.

She announced that she would run for re-election in 2022 but was defeated by Ivan Bates in the Democratic primary.

So that's who  Marilyn Mosby is: an intelligent woman who was stupid to think that she could get away with the crime of which she was convicted.

The federal jury reached the verdict Thursday, finding Mosby guilty of perjury after she falsely claimed financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to withdraw money from the city's retirement fund, prosecutors announced.

"We respect the jury’s verdict and remain steadfastly committed to our mission to uphold the rule of law, keep our country safe, protect the civil rights of all Americans, and safeguard public property," U.S. Attorney Erek L. Barron said. 

Mosby, a Democrat, faces a maximum sentence of five years in the slammer for each of the two counts, which mathematically adds up to ten years or about 3,652 days counting leap years. 

U.S. District Judge Lydia K. Griggsby has not as yet scheduled a sentencing hearing.

Mosby made false mortgage applications in a pending federal case related to the purchase of two Florida vacation homes. That trial has not as yet been set, but if found guilty, the sentence can either run concurrent to whatever she is sentenced in the case above, or it can be consecutive and add more time onto it.

When she walked out of the federal courthouse she told reporters, "I'm blessed, I have nothing else to say." Had she not been blessed, Mosby, a Democrat, would have been found guilty of a more serious crime one can surmise.

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