As former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s sentencing hearing approaches, the NAACP and more than a dozen other organizations sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Tuesday, urging him to pardon her.
In the letter, the NAACP and 14 other groups argued Mosby was unfairly targeted and convicted “after enduring the political persecution and malicious prosecution of the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ).”
“We are deeply concerned that the last administration abused their power to advance a meritless indictment against Ms. Mosby and worse, the current administration’s U.S. Department of Justice ignored a clear political motive of the malicious prosecution against Ms. Mosby,” the letter states.
The groups allege that it was Mosby’s commitment to accountability and racial equity that drew the ire of federal officials, including former President Trump.
The NAACP and 15 other civil rights organizations claim she was targeted by the federal government as payback for her progressive policies and the prosecution of officers after the death of Freddie Gray almost a decade ago.
“I’ve been accused of doing something that I have not done. I’m innocent. I’m facing 40 years for withdrawing funds from my retirement savings. The United States government, a global superpower, is actually coming for me,” Mosby said Wednesday morning on the “The Breakfast Club” where she personally called for a presidential pardon.
“This is all related to this prior administration. Who has the power now to do something about that is this administration,” Mosby said.
She is scheduled to be sentenced on May 23, faces up to 40 years in federal prison.