BALTIMORE — Lawyers for Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby presented a long-shot legal argument in their latest filing in federal court: The indictment against her should be dismissed because it is exclusively the result of federal prosecutors’ animosity toward her.
In making their case for a federal judge to throw out the charges against the two-term Democratic state’s attorney, Mosby’s lawyers revealed new information about the yearlong criminal tax investigation of her and her husband, Democratic City Council President Nick Mosby.
The motion, one of three defense pleadings filed this holiday weekend, asks U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby to throw out the case against Baltimore’s state’s attorney because of “prosecutorial vindictiveness” on the part of U.S. Attorney Erek Barron and Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise, the lead prosecutor on the case.
