{"id":133750,"date":"2024-05-09T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133750"},"modified":"2024-05-09T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:00:16","slug":"white-house-reacts-to-pardon-request-for-ex-baltimore-prosecutor-marilyn-mosby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133750","title":{"rendered":"White House Reacts To Pardon Request For Ex-Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-133743\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-10.56.57-AM-640x653.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-10.56.57-AM-640x653.png 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-10.56.57-AM-157x160.png 157w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-10.56.57-AM.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Marilyn Mosby<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The White House is noncommittal when asked about calls for President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2024\/05\/02\/biden-world-reacts-to-morehouse-backlash-signals-president-may-address-concerns-in-speech\/\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0to pardon\u00a0Marilyn Mosby, the former Baltimore City State\u2019s attorney. During the White House press briefing on Friday, Press Secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2023\/06\/15\/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-pride-month\/\">Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a>\u00a0told theGrio there\u2019s a pardon application process for any federal pardons, which she said is up to the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mosby faces 40 years behind bars when she is sentenced later this month. The former progressive prosecutor was convicted for lying on forms claiming hardship to withdraw money from her retirement to purchase a home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Civil rights attorney and CNN analyst Bakari Sellers tells theGrio that the potential excessive sentence for Mosby is \u201cpolitical persecution\u201d and \u201cretribution.\u201d Mosby notably charged six Baltimore police officers in the police-involved death of Freddie Gray in 2015.\u00a0The White House signaled it does not want to tip the scales of justice by giving an answer to any potential or non-support of the pardon request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Marilyn Mosby The White House is noncommittal when asked about calls for President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0to pardon\u00a0Marilyn Mosby, the former Baltimore City State\u2019s attorney. During the White House press briefing on Friday, Press Secretary\u00a0Karine Jean-Pierre\u00a0told theGrio there\u2019s a pardon application process for any federal pardons, which she said is up to the U.S. Department of Justice. Mosby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-government","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133752,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133750\/revisions\/133752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}