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Lawyers for the six cops charged in the death of Baltimore heroin dealer Freddie Gray have opened up another front against Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, filing new court papers that accused prosecutors of trying to suppress Gray’s history of targeting police agencies by injuring himself in custody — and then suing.
Gray died on April 19 after being injured in the back of a police van following his arrest on April 12. The death sparked weeks of violent protests and riots in the city of Baltimore.
Now, evidence is mounting that Mosby’s office is trying to stack the deck to get a conviction against the police that have been charged in Gray’s death — at any cost.
According to the Baltimore Sun, defense attorneys in the case filed a motion on Thursday accusing Assistant State’s Attorney Janice Bledsoe of telling investigating police to not “do the defense attorneys’ jobs for them” by going after information that showed Gray on at least one occasion had “intentionally injured himself at the Baltimore City Detention Center.”
The event was part of a pattern of “crash-for-cash schemes,” the Sun Reported.
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