Among multiple other upsetting events in today’s Baltimore City bail review hearings, Marilyn Mosby’s office argued to continue holding a teenage defendant because “just because someone is paralyzed doesn’t mean they can’t get around and aren’t a threat to public safety.”
This defendant is an 18 year old who was paralyzed when he was shot in the spine. State claims a gun was found under him at the scene. He was treated at Shock Trauma, moved to a facility for physical rehab, and then taken to the infirmary at MTC.
The infirmary at MTC neglected him so egregiously that he had to be transported back to Shock Trauma for bedsores. After they were debrided, he was sent back to the same infirmary, where he is still being held.
Pretrial called him “an extreme threat to public safety” but granted that his paralysis “somewhat diminishes” the threat. He was released on electronic monitoring.
We’ll share more observations from today when we’ve had a chance to compile all the info and notes. #FreeThemAll
We want to make clear again that bail reviews are currently being held by phone, on a line that isn’t known to the public. Even the docket sheets aren’t posted anywhere they can easily be found by the public. These are public proceedings that have been moved out of public view.
And Marilyn Mosby is using this cover of darkness to conceal the indisputably HEINOUS actions of her office while she personally gets credit for a vanity campaign in which she pretends to yell at the governor every once in a while because he isn’t letting people out.
This isn’t coincidence. Mosby has always taken advantage the fact that so much is wrong in Baltimore that people can scarcely afford to pay attention to “small” things like bail reviews. But bail reviews are where people are being sentenced to possible DEATH right now.
The secrecy of court proceedings is a boon to Mosby’s ongoing two-faced way of conducting the public business she is paid to conduct, and more urgently it is endangering the lives of our most vulnerable neighbors.
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One of our volunteers broke yesterday's cases down in #s. There were 32 total cases. In 22 of them, @BaltimoreSAO asked for the defendant to be held without bail. 14 of those requests were rejected by Judge Jackson. 9 of the 22 SAO wanted held have medical conditions.
One of our volunteers broke yesterday's cases down in #s. There were 32 total cases. In 22 of them, @BaltimoreSAO asked for the defendant to be held without bail. 14 of those requests were rejected by Judge Jackson. 9 of the 22 SAO wanted held have medical conditions.
