Why does that matter? Because it goes to reasonable suspicion to stop Freddie Gray, a man they knew had multiple prior drug arrests. Moreover, it adds to the potential conflicts for which Mosby should recuse herself.
Via Baltimore Sun:
About three weeks before Freddie Gray was chased from a West Baltimore corner by three Baltimore Police officers — the start of a fatal encounter — the office of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked police to target the intersection with “enhanced” drug enforcement efforts.
“State’s Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St,” Joshua Rosenblatt, division chief of Mosby’s Crime Strategies Unit, wrote in a March 17 email to Major Osborne Robinson, a Western District police commander.
The document was disclosed for the first time in a motion filed Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court by defense attorneys for the six officers being prosecuted in Gray’s arrest and death. The attorneys said the email showed that Mosby should be removed from the case.
“Mrs. Mosby herself is now an integral part of the story and as such is a central witness. In the charges relating to the initial arrest and/or detention of Mr. Gray, Mrs. Mosby herself has become essential exculpatory evidence,” the defense attorneys argued. “This is a case where the witness and the prosecutor are one and the same.”