Marilyn and Nick Mosby
Marilyn Mosby again seeks daytime release from home detention
Baltimore’s former state’s attorney cites her new job and the safety of her children as reasons for the court to reverse its prior decision
Above: Marilyn Mosby tears up as her eldest daughter Nylyn addresses a crowd of supporters after Mosby was sentenced to home detention last May 23 by Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby. (WBAL)
Baltimore’s convicted ex-state’s attorney is again asking U.S. District Court Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby to grant her daytime release from home detention, arguing that the U.S. Probation Office is opposing her motion “merely for the sake of opposing.”
In a 10-page filing by her two public defender attorneys, Marilyn Mosby is demanding that Griggsby reverse her decision of two weeks ago, saying she must be allowed to leave her residence “freely” from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m daily for the remaining eight months of her home detention to perform her new job and protect her children.
On October 1, Mosby was hired as director of global strategic planning for an unnamed California company.
The Brew has identified the company as God’s Love Outreach Ministries Inc. (G.L.O.M.), the nonprofit arm of a Livermore, CA., Baptist church that is seeking to expand its network of transitional housing and substance abuse clinics to Baltimore and elsewhere.
Mosby says the job requires her to travel extensively throughout Maryland in order to meet with state and local stakeholders and elected officials.
“Her role may involve meeting with the Department of Health one day, a city council member the next or visiting potential facilities thereafter,” her lawyers wrote in the latest filing, adding that “facility managers, politicians, State Department representatives and community leaders” will constitute some of her stakeholders.
Requiring Mosby – convicted of two felony counts of perjury and one count of mortgage fraud – to submit a one-week advance notice of home leave “will make it impossible for Ms. Mosby to successfully perform her job,” her lawyers argued.
Forced to use Uber
Mosby further complained that restrictions by Probation Officer Rachel Snyder are jeopardizing the safety of her children.
On October 22, Snyder submitted a 12A Offender Report to Judge Griggsby following an incident where, according to the latest filing, Mosby attempted to leave her Fells Point home to attend her daughter’s rescheduled soccer game.
“Even though Ms. Snyder ultimately approved Ms. Mosby’s travel for her daughter’s soccer game, Ms. Mosby’s attorney advised her, out of precaution, not to attend the game considering that Probation had already threatened violating Ms. Mosby merely for requesting an adjustment to her schedule.”
As a result, “Ms. Mosby’s daughter was forced to travel to and from the game by herself, in the evening at 7 p.m., via Uber without any family support, which compromised the safety of her child.” (Elsewhere, the filing notes that the rescheduled soccer game started at 2 p.m., or five hours before her daughter’s reported return trip.)
The Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office has not yet responded to Mosby’s latest appeal for leniency, according to the filing,
A decision by Judge Griggsby has not yet been recorded.