Marilyn Mosby’s defense team came to court today hoping to win favorable procedural rulings ahead of her mortgage fraud trial scheduled for later this month.
Instead, what Baltimore’s former top prosecutor got were mostly defeats.
Mosby wanted the judge to bar prosecutors from bringing up the outcome of her previous trial on perjury charges – jurors had found her guilty of lying in order to make an early withdrawal from her retirement fund to buy two Florida properties.
But U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby ruled that Mosby’s past conviction could be mentioned because it raises questions about her credibility.
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