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Hey, Baltimore has 6 openings at the PD, any takers?

This is how Obama and company create jobs...

I am surprised that half of the indities are black--

Thrown under the bus to satisfy ghetto looters, rapers and arsonists....

Who says Crime doesn't pay? It does if you are black and your city leaders are also...

I hope their district attorney gets burned and looses her job over this...enough she'll never work as an attorney again anywhere...

Sounds like you guys are determining innocence or guilt based on information and misinformation gathered from the Main Stream media.

Let the evidence decide, not public opinion and the Media.

BTW, if this is true, "Mosby said the arrest was unlawful because the knife is legal under state law." , the Feds will prolly through in a 4th Amendment Violation as well, as they should.

An indictment is easy. A conviction, and one that withstands appeal is something completely different.

The knife issue has never been determined by MD courts. The knife in question is a spring-assisted knife. MD law is vague enough that the BPD has been arresting - under the direction of the DAs office - anyone with one of those for years and shaking them down for a plea and fine. Mosby knows this, and that will come out quickly. She's rolling a case for public opinion alone, and it could (and perhaps should?) backfire on her badly.

The first motion any decent defense attorney will file is to have her recused from the case due to significant conflicts of interest. If that doesn't happen, then appeals of any conviction will start on that basis and build from there.

BTW, the officer asserts under state and local law, the knife was not legal. Which justifies the arrest of the felon with a weapon, and a lot of the stuff goes away...

Yep. "Reasonable suspicion" is enough for the detention, and that is all the officers had to assert. They will assert more than that, and Mosby knows it.

She's playing politics because her husband is on the city council and running for re-election, because she wants to be Mayor and then Attorney General or Governor, and because if she doesn't push this, then Baltimore burns nightly.

MD statutes refer to switchblades or 'gravity' knives as being illegal. Seems like 'spring assisted' would fall into one of those categories.

They may, under the stupidly written MD law that defines "switchblades". Yes, I know they are not, as does almost anyone else out there and most jurisdictions, but the issue has never been vetted by the MD courts and the BPD training under direction of the DAs office has them considered as such.

Lets hope so.

States Attorney Mosby is setting Baltimore up for a big letdown. I hope the cops don't dress too "harshly" for the sequel.

If State Law says this knife was legal, then the DA is wrong and not the officers that followed his/her direction?
If this whole case hinges on whether the knife was Illegal, should not the DA be named in this case as well?

The thing is, the state law is ambiguous and vague. The courts have never applied the law to a spring-assisted knife and determined whether it qualifies as a "switchblade" under the MD statute or not.

The case isn't about the legality of the knife, but she's trying to assert that the entire detention and arrest was invalid because that's where her case against the officers for the charges she filed rests. If that part falls in her case, then she will be left with far lesser charges against each of them, and perhaps no charges at all against some.

Well, once she made that disgusting speech she is in the position of "In for a Penny,In for a Pound". Got a tiger by the tail she does!