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Even though a court ruled that Baltimore police can’t sue state attorney Marilyn Mosby over charging them in the Freddie Gray case, five officers won’t let up and want the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case even after the lower courts blocked their attempts, the Associated Press reports.
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The case of five Baltimore police officers who tried to sue Mosby, saying that she prosecuted them out of spite after the death of Gray went nowhere fast after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked their lawsuit.
On Thursday, the Daily Record reports that the officers Lt. Brian Rice, Sgt. Alicia White and Officers Edward Nero, Garrett Miller and William Porter. filed an appeal accusing Mosby of malicious prosecution.
The lawyers for the officers contend that Mosby “didn’t have enough evidence and charged them to ease the unrest that followed his death.”
Mosby lawyers argued that as a prosecutor, she was immune from this type of lawsuit and the federal appeals court agreed with that argument.
“In accordance with my oath to pursue justice over convictions, I’ve refused to allow the grandstanding of some and the hyperbole of others to diminish our resolve to seek justice on behalf of this young man,” she said shortly after announcing the dropped charges. “I was elected the prosecutor. I signed up for this, and I can take it.”
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She continued, “As long as I’m the chief prosecutor for this city, I vow to you that my office and I will fight. We will fight for a fair and equitable justice system for all. So that whatever happened to Freddie Gray never happens to another person in this community again.”
All six officers charged in the police-custody death of Gray were indicted by a grand jury but three were acquitted by a judge of all charges. Mosby dropped the other cases.
The officers submitted a petition to the Supreme Court to hear the case.