Text Messages Show Marilyn Mosby’s Office Went ‘Judge-Shopping’Chuck Ross
Reporter
2:09 PM 07/30/2015
http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/30/text- ... -shopping/(excerpts)
The defense attorneys for the six Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray have text message evidence they say shows a prosecutor in the office of state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby “judge-shopping” for a warrant for the cops’ cell phones.
The Baltimore Sun reports that in a motion filed Wednesday, the cops’ attorneys said they have phone logs and text messages from April 27 showing that assistant state’s attorney Albert Peisinger reached out to Baltimore circuit court judge Timothy Doory to sign off on a search warrant for the officers’ department-issued phones. That was after a search warrant had already been denied by a different judge.
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A phone log shows that Peisinger called Doory’s chambers on the morning of April 27, which was four days before Mosby announced charged against the six Baltimore officers. Peisinger was also sending text messages with a Baltimore police detective who was attempting to get a search warrant signed.
The text messages obtained by the cops’ attorneys indicate that the detective asked Peisinger if the rejected warrant could be improved in any way and then re-submitted for approval.
But Peisinger declined that suggestion, texting “we should be fine.”
“I will call to see if Doory will possible [sic] sign them,” he wrote, according to the defense.
Peisinger wrote to the detective 18 minutes later, informing him that he was “waiting for a call back” and that he “spoke to the judges chambers.”
Three hours later, Peisinger wrote to the detective: “calling you now.” An hour after that, the detective told Peisinger: “Got them signed thanks for everything.”
Doory also signed off on a warrant for the officers’ personal cell phones.
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Unmentioned in the article is that Doory is the judge currently overseeing grand juries in Baltimore.
In late May, weeks after Mosby announced charges, a grand jury convened and determined similar charges against the six officers.
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For the full article click on the link. It also has a link to the Baltimore Sun article.