BALTIMORE — Defense lawyers for Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby leveled 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 yearlong tax investigation into Mosby and her husband, City Council President Nick Mosby.
