Marilyn Mosby Avoids Prison, But ‘This Is Not Over’

By Joseph Williams | Word In Black (WIB) – When she arrived at the U.S. district courthouse in suburban Washington, D.C., for her sentencing hearing Tuesday, former Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby faced the distinct possibility she could spend up to four decades in prison for mortgage fraud and perjury.  In fact, sentencing guidelines called for her to spend between 14 and 18 months behind bars, and prosecutors planned to ask Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby to tack on a few months more for good measure.& RELATED: Marilyn Mosby and Prison as Weapon Against Black People But Mosby — who has been publicly lobbying the White House for a presidential pardon — left the courthouse a free woman after Griggsby sentenced her to time already served.& The judge also ordered Mosby to spend a year in home confinement, along with two years probation and 100 hours of community service. Speaking to supporters after the hearing, Mosby, 44, was elated, declaring divine intervention had protected her from a harsher sentence. But she also suggested she will continue the campaign to clear her name.& ”This is not over,” Mosby told a crowd of supporters after the sentencing hearing. “But God was here today, and...