Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is making headlines again as her defense team seeks to alter the conditions of her home detention sentence. Convicted of perjury and mortgage fraud earlier this year, Mosby is serving a 12-month home detention tracked by electronic monitoring, as reported by FOX Baltimore. Her attorneys have now filed a court petition to end her home confinement in favor of a curfew from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
In a development that, despite her conviction, Mosby has received an offer for a new job role as Director of Global Strategic Planning at a California-based company, her defense argues that the flexibility of a curfew would better accommodate her employment needs. Drafted with the terms home detention, still under electronic monitoring, Mosby's legal team claims that her new position involves managing facilities focused on mental health, substance abuse, and transitional housing services and requirements for frequent travel within Maryland, as detailed by WMAR-2 News.
This request for a curfew over home detention aligns with Mosby's career transition, a move that unfolds in the aftermath of legal turmoil. Her sentence, handed down after being charged with two federal perjury counts and one mortgage fraud, encapsulates the gravity of her wrongdoing. Still, as the defense suggests, Mosby's professional pivot requires a reconsideration of her confinement restraints.
Ongoing opposition from prosecutors and Mosby's probation officer to the proposed change suggests that tensions remain high regarding the appropriateness of her detention adjustments. The probation officer alleges that Mosby failed to provide proper notice of change in employment status amidst her lawyers arguing against such allegations. Recently, Mosby also traveled to California for training related to her new job while on home detention, possibly pointing to the necessity of her requested curfew.
