{"id":970,"date":"2017-01-12T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/?p=970"},"modified":"2017-01-12T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:02:18","slug":"federal-judge-allows-officers-charged-freddie-grays-death-sue-baltimore-state-attorney-malicious-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/2017\/01\/federal-judge-allows-officers-charged-freddie-grays-death-sue-baltimore-state-attorney-malicious-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge allows officers charged in Freddie Gray\u2019s death to sue Baltimore state attorney for \u201cmalicious prosecution\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/594876236\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/594876236?et=2PYyzivsS9JHtBxZnXtnDw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=B6bg5zIPAE-GYjTXs8vMmHUDA86YzzH4aIou8TojPBY=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby aggressively pursued six police officers and had them charged in the death of Freddie Gray while in their custody. But now, the officers who were all found not guilty have countered with a lawsuit of their own against Mosby and a federal judge agrees there\u2019s enough reason to believe she acted inappropriately.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cleared officers allege that Mosby engaged in \u201cmalicious prosecution\u201d against them. According to <em>The Baltimore Sun<\/em>, \u201cU.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis ruled that claims including malicious prosecution, defamation, and invasion of privacy can move forward against Mosby and Assistant Sheriff Samuel Cogen, who wrote the statement of probable cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaintiffs\u2019 malicious prosecution claims relate to her actions when functioning as an investigator and not as a prosecutor,\u201d Garbis wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what the judge\u2019s ruling means: \u201cattorneys will begin the discovery stage, which includes deposing Mosby and others involved in the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the officer\u2019s lawyers believes this case could go all the way to the Supreme Court because of how Mosby overstepped her role as state prosecutor and turned into an active investigator. Mosby\u2019s attorneys say she has \u201cabsolute prosecutorial immunity from actions taken as a state\u2019s attorney,\u201d according to <em>The Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the six officers charge that Mosby willingly and knowingly filed false charges against them and conducted personal investigation separate from law enforcement. Though she denies those charges, the federal judge sees enough cause to move the lawsuit forward.<\/p>\n<p>I hope it does. It\u2019s time the witch hunt on law enforcement gets struck down in the highest courts possible.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the lawsuit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/freddie-gray\/bs-md-ci-mosby-lawsuit-to-proceed-20170106-story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Like I said after charges were dropped. This isn\u2019t over. Now Baltimore\u2019s finest can go after Mosby. I hope they win. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OJyzPZgVg4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/OJyzPZgVg4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheriffClarke\/status\/818803532837044224\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End the witch hunts against law enforcement officers doing their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2846,"featured_media":971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Federal judge allows officers charged in Freddie Gray\u2019s death to 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