After Twists and Turns, Baltimore’s Former Top Prosecutor Heads to Federal Court to Face Perjury Charges

Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore’s state’s attorney for eight years and half of one of the city’s power couples, will finally face perjury charges next week in federal court in Greenbelt.

The case – rife with novel legal theories, charges of racism and political soap opera – is a stunning illustration of Baltimore’s political and legal culture.

Postponed three times, removed from a Baltimore courthouse, and split in two by U.S. District of Maryland Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby, it pits the former high-profile progressive prosecutor’s court-appointed defense lawyers against a U.S. Attorney’s Office that once sent the city’s mayor to prison for fraud.

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