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May 26, 2022

By Keith Reed, The Root

Defense attorneys will now know when they face dishonest cops on the stand

Maryland State Attorney Marilyn Mosby at the mayor’s State of the City address in April. (Julio Cortez/AP)

Baltimore’s top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, has made going after cops for criminal or unethical behavior a hallmark of her time in office. But since at least 2019, her office has kept a secret list of 305 members of the Baltimore City Police Department with known “integrity issues” that at minimum would need to be disclosed to the defense attorneys for suspects should those officers be called to testify in court, the Baltimore Sun reports.

She’ll finally be making that list public after complaints from public defenders and advocacy groups about the need to know which cops are on it and why, and after a court order last fall to release it…

The existence of such a list is important because officers’ testimony often holds significant weight in front of judges in jurors and can help determine whether a person accused of a crime is found guilty. If cops are known to be dishonest or have a track record of questionable behavior, defense attorneys can use that information to help their clients. Mosby’s office even kept a separate “do-not-call” list of more than 100 officers that its prosecutors won’t put on the stand because of their lack of credibility.

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Holding law enforcement accountable is important when so many Black Americans are imprisoned. Mosby joins President Biden and trial jurors who will no longer stand for criminal police behavior.

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