As the early November trial date approaches, US District Court Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby approved a request from Mosby’s defense to relocate the trial from Baltimore to Greenbelt, a suburb of Washington, DC. This decision stands out, given that even in high-profile cases, defense teams often struggle to obtain such changes in venue.
Prosecutors noted that they couldn’t recall another federal case in Maryland that had been transferred to an alternate courthouse.
Griggsby pointed out that the legal threshold for such relocations isn’t particularly high. Recognizing the extensive local media coverage, she remarked during a Friday hearing in Baltimore federal court, “Some of that pretrial publicity has certainly cast the defendant in a negative light.”
Adding to the case’s complexity, the judge also decided to split the trial into two parts: one addressing the perjury charges and the other focusing on the mortgage fraud allegations. This decision came after Mosby’s attorneys said that she might choose to testify in one trial but not the other.
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Source: mpamag.com