BALTIMORE — A federal judge barred prosecutors Wednesday from mentioning any of the previous investigations into Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby at her perjury and mortgage fraud trial later this month.
U.S. District Court Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby said during the first of two pretrial hearings that any mention of previous investigations into Mosby’s travel, taxes and her businesses would be “very prejudicial” at trial, meaning it could influence jurors into thinking she was guilty.
Statements Mosby made in those investigations, specifically statements that businesses she owned were inoperable, are at the heart of her defense and barring them from the Sept. 19 trial are an early win for the embattled Democrat.
