Horror injuries of Baltimore man, 61, after near fatal attack by pack of FIFTY teens, including girls, when he tried to break up a fight

She is so busy trumping up  charges against 6 police officers that she hardly has time to find the 50 thugs&thugettes involved in this attempted mob murder.

Bullock, 18, is charged with eight counts, including rioting and malicious destruction of property -- all of them misdemeanors -- after he showed up with his stepfather at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center

Some additional investigative reporting here

"Historically, bails are set very high in Baltimore, the average is $100,000. There are so many who need this support. We have a little bail fund and they have a big, big criminal justice system," said Nicole Lee, a human rights lawyer with Arch City Defenders that is working with Bmore United, a justice coalition of citizens in Baltimore.

What are your thoughts on the bail amount? Your prior comment did not say.  Thank you.

One of the bills up for discussion, modeled on policies in Connecticut and Wisconsin, would have assigned prosecution of police-involved killings to Maryland's attorney general rather than local state's attorneys, who often works with police to prosecute civilian criminal cases.

Another bill would have altered Maryland's Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, which governs the administrative disciplinary process. For instance, the bill would have kept evidence collected during an internal disciplinary investigation out of officers' sight until after they were questioned.

"The point is that police police themselves at the trial board and we get bad results," said Democratic Baltimore delegate Jill Carter, who authored the bill.

Dayvon Love, the director of public policy for Baltimore advocacy group Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, says the changes to the Officers' Bill of Rights would alter a few things in a case like Gray's. Currently, law enforcement officers alleged to have used excessive force have 10 days to make a statement on the record; the bill would remove that provision, Love said. It would also create a spot for civilians on the three-member hearing board for disciplinary investigations.

That bolded paragraph?  That's the "special prosecutor" bill - one the FOP vigorously opposed.  Now, apparently, they are singing a different tune.

Maryland's police union is one of the strongest in the nation; just getting the bills through that did pass was a major accomplishment.

Re: bail

Almost 10 years ago, the state was sued by individuals who felt they had a constitutional right to legal representation at bail hearings; it wasn't enough that they could be assigned a public defender at trial.

The state's top court ruled last September [2013] that having a lawyer at the hearings was a right under Maryland's constitution.

It was not a popular finding in many quarters. A previous decision based on the state's public defender law was undone by the General Assembly, and Gov. Martin O'Malley initially expressed hope the court would reconsider the second ruling.

But when Court of Appeals judges said they would not change the decision, the debate turned to how to implement it. Late in this year's session, the General Assembly approved funds for the judiciary to hire the lawyers.

Since then, commissioners have been drilling, getting ready for July 1, when that money would be available to pay for 2,500 attorneys that the top judge of the District Court had been working to recruit. In Towson, Michael S. Charnasky, the administrative commissioner, had been pulling 60- and 70-hour weeks to get ready.

Link

As to setting bail, it's about as vague and subjective as you can imagine, within limits.  Here are a couple of links that contain some useful information: here and here.  [offered for the info therein only]

Also, see this article, which also may be enlightening.

From the article:

Of the approximately 3,000 people in pretrial detention in Baltimore at any one time, nearly 200 are stuck in jail on bail of less than $5,000 and state lawmakers are now debating whether the long-established practice is the fairest way to decide who stays behind bars. Some defendants can't even post bail of $100.

Supporters say Maryland's bail system works efficiently, allowing defendants who make bail to quickly return to their lives. Many find a bail bond company to put up the money for them -- as long as they can pay a fee. That company is responsible for making sure the defendant shows up for trial.

But advocates for change argue that it is unfair to link freedom with finances, and a state task force recently recommended doing away with bail in favor of a system that evaluates only whether a defendant is a danger to the public or a flight risk.

Four states have made similar changes, as has Washington, D.C., where defendants face a judge with just two options: release or confinement. Other states, like Maryland, continue to use bail bondsmen.

ABA,"Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor," Rule 3.8(f):

The prosecutor in a criminal case shall, except for statements that are necessary to inform the public of the nature and extent of the prosecutor's action and that serve a legitimate law enforcement purpose, refrain from making extrajudicial comments that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused and exercise reasonable care to prevent investigators, law enforcement personnel, employees or other persons assisting or associated with the prosecutor in a criminal case from making an extrajudicial statement that the prosecutor would be prohibited from making under Rule 3.6 or this Rule.

Maryland adopted the ABA's model rules almost 30 years ago

in the emotionally fraught circumstances, & given her inexperience, Mosby's breach of ethics was perhaps understandable in the moment

& yet with every passing day, it strikes me more & more as inflammatory & reprehensible, especially since she "refused" to "try the case in the media" -- after announcing the charges in a showboating press conference addressed in part to "demonstrators across America"

And noted then upthread

you're embarrassing yourself?

Do you realize that you are the one embarrassing yourself???

It's all in the Motion as filed and that Motion is now part of the public domain.

I, for one, am not going to apologize for not being far left on every issue.  Furthermore, these racially charged arrests are only making the right stronger, because as we will almost certainly find out. The facts are looking to be on their side, and those clamoring for a political lynching will almost certainly be wrong.

She is a bit player in this tragedy.

She made herself a big player when she did the Donta Allen interview the night before the charges.

Did you even bother to read the Motion -- Section II features her prominently.

Remember once the police revealed the existence of this unidentified witness every local and many national news hounds were on the trail.

And where did that trail lead to??? the pillow she shares with Mosby's chief prosecutor???

That's not a conflict of interest to you???

The police were trying to protect the witness. Even the WaPo was trying to protect the witness keeping him unnamed and unidentified.

And then comes Miller who outs him thus putting his life and his testimony at risk.

And you're okay with that???

What proof do you have to support your allegation?

I think Mosby's team is the most likely source of the leak.

I also think it is very likely they constructed that silly search warrant, that inexplicably mentions Allens statement, in order to get Allen to publicly recant his statement.

Not commenting on the specific discussion but this is a form of obstruction of justice.

For instance, in the Jonbonet Ramsey case, a former reporter revealed that publications incuding his own were creating witnesses and evidence so they could have explosive headlines. They would call the tipline or police and give them a false lead - the publication would then ask the police if it was true about X (X being the fake tip) and get a "no comment" response. Thus leaving the publication to be able to print that the police refused to comment on X.  The FBI investigated this practice with the help of an appalled reporter but in the end it was decided not to pursue charges.

Second, it was during O'Malley's term as mayor that the crime stats were routinely monkeyed with.

The second thing Marty did, in order to be governor, involves the stats themselves. In the beginning, under Norris, he did get a better brand of police work and we can credit a legitimate 12 to 15 percent decline in homicides. Again, that was a restoration of an investigative deterrent in the early years of that administration. But it wasn't enough to declare a Baltimore Miracle, by any means.

What can you do? You can't artificially lower the murder rate - how do you hide the bodies when it's the state health department that controls the medical examiner's office? But the other felony categories? Robbery, aggravated assault, rape? Christ, what they did with that stuff was jaw-dropping.

So they cooked the books.

Oh yeah. If you hit somebody with a bullet, that had to count. If they went to the hospital with a bullet in them, it probably had to count as an aggravated assault. But if someone just took a gun out and emptied the clip and didn't hit anything or they didn't know if you hit anything, suddenly that was a common assault or even an unfounded report. Armed robberies became larcenies if you only had a victim's description of a gun, but not a recovered weapon. And it only gets worse as some district commanders began to curry favor with the mayoral aides who were sitting on the Comstat data. In the Southwest District, a victim would try to make an armed robbery complaint, saying , `I just got robbed, somebody pointed a gun at me,' and what they would do is tell him, well, okay, we can take the report but the first thing we have to do is run you through the computer to see if there's any paper on you. Wait, you're doing a warrant check on me before I can report a robbery? Oh yeah, we gotta know who you are before we take a complaint. You and everyone you're living with? What's your address again? You still want to report that robbery?

They cooked their own books in remarkable ways. Guns disappeared from reports and armed robberies became larcenies. Deadly weapons were omitted from reports and aggravated assaults became common assaults. The Baltimore Sun did a fine job looking into the dramatic drop in rapes in the city. Turned out that regardless of how insistent the victims were that they had been raped, the incidents were being quietly unfounded. That tip of the iceberg was reported, but the rest of it, no. And yet there were many veteran commanders and supervisors who were disgusted, who would privately complain about what was happening. If you weren't a journalist obliged to quote sources and instead, say, someone writing a fictional television drama, they'd share a beer and let you fill cocktail napkins with all the ways in which felonies disappeared in those years.

If the knife was illegal, the cops clearly had a basis for arresting him and taking him into custody; it still does not explain or justify the fact that Gray went into the van alive and came out essentially dead.  

In this case "Caesar's Wife" must be the baseline. There must be a person around who doesn't carry baggage and is acceptable to call.