41 Facts About Marilyn Mosby

Marilyn Mosby is an American politician and lawyer who served as the State's Attorney of Baltimore from 2015 to 2023.

Marilyn Mosby was the youngest state prosecutor for any major city in the United States.

Marilyn 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.

Marilyn Mosby attended Dover-Sherborn High School, an hour away from her home, as a result of METCO, the longest-standing school desegregation program in the country.

Marilyn Mosby served in the Student Government Association, and was co-editor of the school newspaper.

Marilyn Mosby was successful, and was awarded $1,700 for damages.

Marilyn Mosby served as a law clerk, an Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore, and Liberty Mutual fraud investigator from 2005 to 2014.

Marilyn Mosby announced her plans to run for State's Attorney for the City of Baltimore in June 2013.

Marilyn Mosby ran against incumbent Gregg L Bernstein in the Democratic primary, defeating him with 55 percent of the vote.

Marilyn Mosby faced no Republican opposition in the general election.

At the time of her election, Marilyn Mosby was the youngest top prosecutor in a major US city.

Marilyn Mosby was sworn into office on January 8,2015.

Marilyn Mosby reestablished community liaison positions, which her predecessor had eliminated, to inform residents of developments in cases relevant to their neighborhood.

Marilyn Mosby created the Policy and Legislative Affairs Unit to advocate for legislation to prosecute cases more efficiently.

Marilyn Mosby added that she would vacate nearly 5,000 marijuana possession convictions.

Marilyn Mosby announced on April 12,2022, that she would run for re-election to a third term.

Marilyn Mosby was defeated by defense attorney Ivan Bates in the Democratic primary on July 19,2022.

Marilyn Mosby campaigned on a promise to target and prosecute violent repeat offenders.

Marilyn Mosby created the Criminal Strategies Unit, modeled after a similar unit in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, to use community assistance to identify and target violent repeat offenders.

In 2015, Marilyn Mosby charged six police officers, who had arrested detainee Freddie Gray prior to his death caused by injuries sustained in police custody, with a variety of crimes including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

David Jaros, an associate professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, said that Marilyn Mosby possibly overcharged the officers, while noting this is more typical in criminal cases involving defendants who are not police.

Marilyn Mosby has good reason to separate her probe from the police.

Marilyn Mosby defended the charges in a statement released through a spokesperson, and condemned the release of information as unethical.

Croyder said that Marilyn Mosby circumvented normal procedures "to step into the national limelight", and that she "pandered to the public", creating an expectation of a conviction.

The Baltimore Sun reported that Marilyn Mosby received $12,000 in free travel to speak at events around the nation after the officers were charged.

Marilyn Mosby was criticized for requesting increased police presence, in the same neighborhood where Gray was arrested, a few weeks prior to the incident.

Marilyn Mosby's acquittal led to criticism from a variety of sources of Mosby for acting too quickly and too aggressively in charging the officers.

Five of the six police officers charged by Marilyn Mosby sued her for malicious prosecution, defamation, and invasion of privacy.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the lawsuit on the grounds that Marilyn Mosby had immunity from such charges in May 2018, and the US Supreme Court denied the officers' appeal in November 2018.

Nick Marilyn Mosby said he has been "in ongoing conversations with the IRS" about resolving this issue.

Shortly afterwards, land records revealed Marilyn Mosby bought two homes in Florida, including a $476,000 condominium.

In May 2021, Marilyn Mosby's office filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against Baltimore television station WBFF, which had been critical of Marilyn Mosby, alleging the station's coverage of her office was "blatantly slanted, dishonest, misleading, racist, and extremely dangerous".

Marilyn Mosby additionally was accused of making false statements in mortgage applications for her Florida home and condo by failing to disclose her federal tax liabilities.

On February 4,2022, Marilyn Mosby pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Marilyn Mosby's trial was scheduled to begin in March 2023, but in January, her defense team of six attorneys, who had taken the case pro bono, were permitted to withdraw after being accused of violating court rules, which resulted in further delays.

Marilyn Mosby faced five years in federal prison on each count at sentencing.

Marilyn Mosby's statements contradicted evidence already heard by the court.

Marilyn Mosby faced up to 40 years of incarceration for her guilty verdicts if her appeals were not granted.

Marilyn Mosby was ordered to surrender her passport ahead of sentencing.

In May 2024, ahead of her sentencing, Marilyn Mosby appeared for an interview on MSNBC's The ReidOut, where she declared her innocence and called on President Joe Biden to pardon her, asserting that she had been "politically targeted" and that the proceedings had broken her psychologically, professionally, spiritually, and financially.

On May 23,2024, Marilyn Mosby was "spared prison for mortgage fraud and perjury" and instead, sentenced to 12 months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service, and three years of supervised release in connection with her perjury and mortgage fraud convictions.