It’s the week that was and the serious challenges facing City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby.
Tuesday saw the heart-wrenching headline that Baltimore city police Sergeant Kenneth Ramberg had been seriously injured. A 27-year police veteran attempting to make a traffic stop lodged in the vehicle as the suspect took off. Ramberg was dragged for two blocks.
The next day after hours-long standoff police arrested a repeat offender with a rap sheet that dates back nearly two decades.
Joseph Black has been arrested 20 times and was still on probation when he was released after a plea deal from the State's Attorney’s Office.
“Frankly, an individual who had no business being out who should have still been behind bars was out wreaking havoc on the streets of Baltimore yet again," said Mayor Brandon Scott.
In the aftermath Mayor Scott and Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, both expressed frustration but neither mentioned Marilyn Mosby or her office by name.
In the days later in an exclusive interview with Sergeant Ramberg’s wife, she did.
"Charging attempted murder of a police officer makes her look good and what is concerning to me is that once the dust settles and everything calms down that no one’s talking about this case any longer that a plea deal could come for him," said Luana Ramberg, questioning the plea deal that set the man free who injured her husband.
It was criticism that seemed to pile on an embattled State's Attorney as Wednesday FOX45 News learned of an opinion by a Baltimore circuit judge filed this week.
A rare public admonishing of the State’s Attorney Office by Judge Jeffrey Geller citing staffing issues that led to no prosecutors being assigned to a conspiracy case involving 26 city jail corrections officers.
Geller detailed what he called “egregious failures” by the State's Attorney’s Office.
Zy Richardson, a spokesperson for Marilyn Mosby’s office responded to the biting critique calling Geller’s opinion " A decision to score political points a mere 19 days from the election," - Zy Richardson.
Despite what by most accounts was a difficult week, political expert John Dedie tells FOX45 News that in a three-way race, Marilyn Mosby is still the one beat.