Marilyn mosby states attorney biography

American politician and lawyer (born 1980)

Marilyn Mosby (née James; born January 22, 1980)^[1] is an American politician and lawyer who served as the State's Attorney of Baltimore from 2015 to 2023.^[2] She was the youngest state prosecutor for any major city in the United States.^[3] Mosby gained national attention following the killing of Freddie Gray in 2015, after which she led a highly publicized investigation and unsuccessful murder prosecution of the police officers who arrested and transported Gray.^[4]

Mosby was re-elected in 2018 but lost her 2022 reelection campaign to Ivan Bates, following her indictment by federal grand juries for perjury and fraud.^[5] The two perjury charges were due to Mosby having financially exploited a COVID-19 pandemic relief program^[6] for which she was convicted on November 9, 2023.^[7] The fraud case, for which she was convicted on February 6, 2024, was due