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Biden faces pressure to pardon ex-Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby

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President Biden is under growing pressure from civil rights groups and some Democratic lawmakers to pardon Marilyn Mosby, the former Baltimore state’s attorney who was convicted in February of mortgage fraud.

Mosby’s advocates argue that she was the target of a politically motivated prosecution under the Trump administration after she unsuccessfully prosecuted six Baltimore police officers in the 2015 death of Freddie Gray.

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