The White House was repeatedly pressed Friday about offering a presidential pardon to former state attorney Marilyn Mosby of Baltimore.
Mosby faces up to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of perjury and mortgage fraud but says the convictions are related to her decision to charge police officers involved in Freddie Gray’s death in 2015.
“I’m confident that this administration will see past the political attacks,” Mosby told MSNBC’s Joy Reid. “I know that I’ve done nothing wrong, nothing criminal.”
During the White House press briefing, The Grio‘s April Ryan asked if President Joe Biden would consider a pardon.
“[Mosby] was one of the those who really was groundbreaking in efforts of policing and accountability,” Ryan said. “[Political commentator] Bakari Sellers says that it looks like political persecution as well as retribution for what she did many years ago in the Freddie Gray case.”
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not weigh in on Biden’s stance, saying it is up to the Department of Justice.
“I don’t want to be speaking to any individual pardon request,” she said. “That is not something I can do. The Department of Justice has their process, a process that is thorough, that is deliberative.”
Ryan stressed that Biden could “add his voice to this petition,” but Jean-Pierre repeated that Mosby will need to go through the DOJ’s process.
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Mosby’s sentencing is scheduled for May 23.
While some have argued that Mosby’s situation stems from her prosecution of the officers involved in Gray’s death, the indictment against her came from Democratic U.S. attorney Erek Barron and has been handled by Biden-nominated U.S. district judge Lydia Kay Griggsby, the Baltimore Sun reported.
