Court overturns ex-state attorney’s mortgage fraud conviction but upholds perjury convictions
Annapolis, Art. (AP) – On Friday, a Federal Court of Appeal overthrew a mortgage fraud conviction of Marilyn Mosby, the lawyer of the former Baltimore province, to win a national profile to charge the police officers at the death of a black man. But the court Two false convictions about the real estate he bought.
4. The US Circuit Court of Appeal decided that the jury instructions in the mortgage fraud case özenli wrongly declined ”about the appropriate court venue. The case was tried for the property he bought in Florida in Maryland.
Judge Stephanie Thacker, “Mortgage fraud conviction as a result of our decision, as a result of the fruit of the mortgage fraud of the person’s Longboat key to condemn the order of the loss of loss,” he wrote.
Judge Paul Niemeyer partially opposed. While the majority decision claimed that the government was committed in Maryland and could not bring enough evidence to show that the education of the Regional Court was wrong, Niemeyer wrote that he would reject both arguments and confirm the decision of the Regional Court.
The Court said that the regional court did not make a mistake in deciding on the false convictions of the person who appealed, ”he said.
The court rejected the allegations that the evidence adopted by Mosby misled the jury members.
“In summary, the Regional Court did not allow the government to bring evidence of how the appeal of the appeal used the funds he has used from his retirement accounts,” he said. “This evidence was likely whether the appealing person had ‘negative financial results’. And the proof value of this evidence did not predominate significantly due to the risk of excessive prejudice or jury confusion.”
45 -year -old Mosby was sentenced to prison last year. The sentence contained a 12 -month house arrest last month. He was also sentenced to 100 hours of community service and a three -year -old imprisonment.
Mosby He was convicted Early withdrawal from retirement funds during the COVİD-19 pandemi and to lie to the financial situation to claim that it was a gift from her husband because it was closed in a Florida condominum of $ 5,000.
Mosby, the lawyer of the Baltimore province from 2015 to 2023, maintained his innocence.
When Mosby blamed the officers in Freddie Gray’s death in 2015, he attracted national attention, which led to uprising and protests in the city. After the three officers were acquitted, Mosby’s office accused of the other three civil servants. Ultimately, he served as the lawyer of the state for two terms before he was accused and lost his choice again.
In 2020, at the summit of Pandemi, Mosby drew $ 90,000 from Baltimore City’s postponed compensation plan, and Kissimmee and Longboat Key used it to pay at their holiday homes in Florida.
Prosecutors, MOSBY, pandemi, the travel -oriented side of the coronavirus by claiming that the wrong way to harm the Koronavirus aid, aid and economic security law in accordance with the provisions of the funds in accordance with the provisions of the funds argued.
Mosby’s lawyers argued that retirement funds came from their own income and that no one was defrauded and that they were not defrauded for paying all federal taxes related to money. The government said that the money remained as the ownership of the city until it was legally appropriate, and that it harm everyone who fits the rules during the coronavirus pandemia.
The mortgage fraud conviction, which was overthrown by the Court of Appeal on Friday, was caused by a $ 5,000 gift letter ğı that he sent while receiving credit to buy the Longboat switch property. Prosecutors said that the letter was misrepresented by Mosby’s husband, in fact a gift of $ 5,000 for closing when it has its own money.
Mosby was forgiven last year. In a letter he wrote to President Joe Biden at that time, the Congress expressed support for the Black Caucus case. Biden did not give forgiveness.
