Home detention for former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby ends

Carson Swick, The Baltimore Sun on Jun 20, 2025

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BALTIMORE — Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s year-long home detention sentence will wrap up on Friday, according to a judge’s order.

The order from U.S. District Judge Lydia Griggsby came in response to Mosby filing motions earlier this week for the return of her passport and waiver of her $1,447.23 location monitoring fee — legal restrictions that have limited Mosby’s ability to travel freely.

“In support of her motion for return of her passport, the Defendant states that her home detention will be complete on June 20, 2025, and United States Probation has advised the Defendant that it will file a motion for early termination of the Defendant’s supervised release upon the completion of her home detention,” Griggsby’s order reads before granting Mosby’s request.

Mosby, 45, served as State’s Attorney from 2015 to 2023 and was convicted on two counts of perjury and one count of mortgage fraud — both federal offenses — since leaving office. She was sentenced to home detention for these crimes in May 2024 and began serving her sentence the following month.

Mosby’s 2023 perjury conviction stemmed from her abuse of the CARES Act, a federal COVID-19 legislation that allowed people who claimed financial hardship to withdraw funds from retirement accounts without penalties. However, forensic accounts testified that Mosby made more money during the pandemic in 2020 than she did the year prior.

In a separate 2024 trial, a jury found Mosby guilty of using retirement funds as down payments for two Florida vacation homes worth more than $1 million combined.

Mosby was confined to her Fells Point home and common areas of her apartment complex while on home detention, but was still permitted to travel for work, childcare responsibilities, medical appointments and meetings with her legal team. Mosby had to get permission to travel to all other events, such as a barbecue held in her honor that she attended last summer in Clarksville.

Mosby rose to national prominence by opting to criminally charge six Baltimore police officers in relation to the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody, an event that sparked protests and looting across the city. After the trials of three officers ended without any convictions, Mosby’s office dropped all charges against the three remaining officers.

Baltimore School of Law professor David Jaros suggested Mosby’s decision to charge the officers with offenses like second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter without cooperation from the Baltimore Police Department made the case very difficult to win.

“It may have benefited the public, and frankly, Ms. Mosby, to be more open about some of the challenges in obtaining a conviction in that case,” Jaros told The Sun. “To some extent, supporters were left with disappointment and a question about whether or not there was true willingness by the criminal justice system to pursue police officers.”

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