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Marilyn Mosby speaks to the media outside the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Greenbelt on May 23, 2024. (Rachel Konieczny / The Daily Record File Photo)
Federal judge denies Marilyn Mosby’s renewed request to end home confinement
• U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby argues that Marilyn Mosby has not met her burden to show the necessary modification to her supervised release conditions.
• She also argues that Mosby’s new job does not meet the conditions of her supervision.
• Mosby’s counsel argue that without the flexibility to modify her employment schedule, Mosby will be severely hindered from doing her job effectively.
A federal judge has denied former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s renewed request to end her home confinement and replace it with a 9 p.m. curfew.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby comes just one month after Griggsby denied Mosby’s first request to replace her home confinement with a curfew.
“[Mosby] has neither met her burden to show that the requested modification to her supervised release conditions is necessary, nor shown that the modification is warranted at this time,” Griggsby wrote.
Griggsby added that it is not clear that Mosby’s new job satisfies the conditions of her supervision, or that the requested modification to her supervised release conditions is necessary.
“[T]he facts currently before the Court simply do not show that [Mosby] is unable to effectively perform her new job without the requested modification,” Griggsby wrote, noting Mosby has requested only one four-hour block of employment-related leave since starting her new position in October.
In her request, Mosby claims she’s given the U.S. Probation Office everything it has asked for regarding her new job for a California-based company seeking to establish drug treatment, mental health and housing services across Maryland. She argued the probation office previously expressed openness to replacing her home confinement with a curfew if she secured a new job, but has rejected her requests since she secured the job.
“Without the ability to freely travel within Maryland and the flexibility to modify her employment schedule, Ms. Mosby will be severely hindered from doing her job effectively,” wrote Mosby’s counsel, James Wyda and Paresh S. Patel, federal public defenders. “Yet, United States Probation opposed this motion without any good reason.”
Mosby, who spent two terms as Baltimore’s top prosecutor, began a yearlong period of home detention in June after being found guilty of perjury and mortgage fraud in separate trials. She appealed her convictions and is seeking a presidential pardon. The Maryland Supreme Court allowed her to keep her law license during her appeal.
