[DAILYCALLER] In the latest salvo in the Freddie Gray case, the office of Baltimore city state's attorney Marilyn Mosby is accusing the attorneys for six officers charged in the 25-year-old's death of "spew[ing] invective, hoping that vitriol will trump logic."In a motion filed Wednesday, Mosby's chief deputy, Michael Schatzow, responded to the defense attorneys' calls for the 35-year-old prosecutor to recuse herself from the case because of her personal and political conflicts of interest.
"They make arguments for which they can find no authority," Schatzow said of the defense lawyers. "They distort facts when they do not invent them. They abhor logic, so they do not use it."
In his latest missive, first published by The Baltimore Sun, Schatzow responded to a defense motion filed last week which claimed that Mosby directed the police department's Western district to beef up narcotics patrols at an intersection near where Gray was apprehended on April 12. After being detained and put in a police van, Gray suffered a broken neck at some point during the ride to central booking. He died a week later.
But in their motion last week, defense attorneys cited a March 17 email Joshua Rosenblatt, the division chief of Crime Strategies Unit in Mosby's office, to Western District police commander Major Osborne Robinson. The email indicated that Mosby herself wanted coppers to target suspected drug pushers.