Marilyn Mosby (née James; born January 22, 1980)[1] is an American politician and lawyer who served as the State's Attorney of Baltimore from 2015 to 2023.[2] She was the youngest state prosecutor for any major city in the United States.[3] Mosby gained national attention following the killing of Freddie Gray in 2015, after which she led a highly publicized investigation and unsuccessful murder prosecution of the police officers who arrested and transported Gray.[4]
Mosby was re-elected in 2018 but lost her 2022 reelection campaign to Ivan Bates, following her indictment by federal grand juries for perjury and fraud.[5] The two perjury charges were due to Mosby having financially exploited a COVID-19 pandemic relief program[6] for which she was convicted on November 9, 2023.[7] The fraud case, for which she was convicted on February 6, 2024, was due to mortgage fraud committed when purchasing two Longboat Key, Florida properties.[8]
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Meet Marilyn Mosby, the Rogue Prosecutor Wreaking Havoc in Baltimore
This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna, and the threat those prosecutors pose to victims and others alike.
Do the residents of Baltimore ever look back on the TV series “The Wire”—which aired from 2002 to 2008—with its focus on guns, drugs, and gangland violence as the “good old days,” when violent crime was low and life was good?
Shockingly, they could.
And Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby deserves a large part of the blame—as do her liberal billionaire backers.
Since she was first sworn into office in January 2015, homicides, rapes, aggravated assaults, burglaries, and robberies in the gritty city have exploded.
As one FBI chart shows, once Mosby took command, homicides skyrocketed in Maryland, because the vast majority of Maryland killings take place in Baltimore city. (We focus here on the city of Baltimore, as distinct from Baltimore
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Another death of a young black man in the hands of police, this time, in Baltimore. But this time, things would be different. This time, State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby ’05 spoke these words on national television: “We have brought the following charges…” And she called for the arrest of six police officers for crimes ranging from misconduct in office to second-degree depraved-heart murder.
With that, Mosby rose to national prominence, and quelled the fires of a city that had been burning since the death of Freddie Gray.
Gray, a twenty-five year-old African American man, “made eye contact” with police on the morning of April 12, 2015, in a West Baltimore neighborhood, and started running. The police pursued and arrested him. Within the hour, Gray was rushed to a hospital emergency room. Two days later, he underwent spinal surgery. He died on April 19. According to his family, his spine had been 80 percent severed. Baltimore erupted in more than two weeks of violent protests, which ended April 30 with Mosby’s announcement.
Mosby’s decision to charge the six police officers