BALTIMORE — A federal judge could sanction Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby because her attorneys included prospective juror information in a filing in her perjury and mortgage fraud case.
Mosby’s attorneys were responding Thursday evening to a request from federal prosecutors to instate a gag order in the case prohibiting suggestive out-of-court comments from lawyers involved in the case. In that filing, her attorneys cited specific responses to a questionnaire sent out to prospective jurors in the case as evidence that the jury pool already was prejudiced against Mosby.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Lydia Griggsby ordered the defense filing removed from the record, saying Mosby’s lawyers broke court rules that establish juror questionnaires and responses to them as confidential.
