WATCH ABOVE: Marilyn J. Mosby, Baltimore City State’s Attorney, confirmed Friday that criminal charges will be laid against police officers involved in Freddie Gray’s death.
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby drew cheers from a crowd outside of Baltimore City Hall Friday as she stood at a podium and announced charged against six police officers in the case of Freddie Gray. Who is Mosby?
- Mosby is the youngest chief prosecutor of any major city in the U.S. at the age of 35, according to her bio on Baltimore City’s website.
- She is a Boston native and comes from a long line of police officers, including her grandfather, uncles, mother and father.
- She is the first member of her family to graduate college, and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Tuskegee University.
- A graduate of Boston College Law School, Mosby joined the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office and moved up from District Court to the General Trial Division in 2011, where she prosecuted some of the most heinous felonies in the state.
- Mosby lives in Baltimore and is the wife of Baltimore City Councilman Nick J. Mosby, whom she has two daughters with.
- Her husband told the Baltimore Sun in 2013 that she “turned down corporate jobs from across the country and decided to become a prosecutor, something she always wanted to do and something she did at a very high level.”
- She was also named one of the Baltimore Sun’s 2014 50 Women to Watch, Baltimore Magazine’s 2013 “40 Under 40” and the Maryland Daily Record’s 2013 Leading Women.
- Mosby’s interest in the justice system arose from a tragic incident, when her 17-year-old cousin was mistaken for a drug dealer and killed outside her home by another 17-year-old over a pair of sneakers.
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