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for Baltimore's State Attorney MARILYN MOSBY, if she succeeds with the Freddie Gray murder case.



From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Mosby

Early life
Born Marilyn Jones, she was raised in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, by her grandmother.[8] Her mother and father were both police officers; her family traces its association with the police back over five generations.[5]

She attended Dover-Sherborn High School, an hour away from her home. She served in the Student Government Association and was co-editor of the school newspaper.[8]

Her interest in practicing law was sparked by the murder of her 17-year-old cousin outside her home, when he was mistakenly identified for a drug dealer and killed by another 17-year-old.[5]

Mosby received a scholarship at Tuskegee University, Alabama,[8] where she studied law and also met her future husband Nick Mosby, who presently serves as a city council member.[5] Mosby earned her Juris Doctor degree from Boston College Law School.[5]

Career[edit]
Mosby served as Assistant Attorney General for Maryland from 2005 to 2012.[9] She became a litigator for Liberty Mutual Insurance in 2012.[10]

In 2013, she announced plans to run for State's Attorney for the city of Baltimore.[9] She ran against incumbent Gregg L. Bernstein.[9] In the Democratic primary, Mosby defeated Bernstein with 55 percent of the vote.[10] She faced no opposition in the general election.[11] Mosby won the general election, receiving 94 percent of the vote, defeating Independent Russell A. Neverdon Sr., who staged a write-in campaign.[12][13] At the time of her election, Mosby was the youngest district attorney in the nation.[14][15]

Mosby was sworn into office on January 8, 2015.[16] Soon after her first term in office had begun, Mosby announced restructuring of her office that was inspired by ideas from prosecutors' offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.[17] Deputy State's Attorney Janice Bledsoe was named to oversee the new division of "criminal intelligence", while Detective Joshua Rosenblatt was appointed to lead the Criminal Strategies Unit, which would use technology, data analysis, and intelligence-gathering to identify trends in crimes and offenders in order to target offenders for law enforcement.[17] Mosby reestablished community liaison positions, which her predecessor had eliminated, to inform residents of developments in cases relevant to their neighborhood.[17] Mosby also created the Policy and Legislative Affairs Unit, headed by Lisa Smith, that would advocate for legislation to help keep residents safe and prosecute cases efficiently.[17]

In 2015, Mosby ruled the death of Freddie Gray a homicide, and charged the six police officers involved in his death with murder.