GREAT MOMENTS IN JUSTICE – AT 11:46 A.M. ET:   There's been much controversy surrounding the actions of Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore prosecutor who threw the book at the six cops allegedly involved in the death of Freddie Gray.   She has more conflicts of interest than Hillary Clinton at a fundraisers' convention.  But it gets worse.  She conducted an "investigation" of the case, and that probe had a lead investigator.  Let us meet him, Avon Mackel, courtesy of Legal Insurrection:

Mr. Mackel used to be a high-ranking Baltimore police officer, according to CNN.

Well, until things went horribly wrong.

In 2009 Mackel was stripped of his command position because of a grievous failure to follow through on allegations of a mishandled robbery investigation by two of his officers.

In addition, according to that same CNN report, the Baltimore Sun newspaper reported that police in Mackel’s district were falsely “down-classifying” crimes in order to suggest crime rates were lower than was actually the case–and to make Mackel look more effective as a crime-fighter than he was.

But it gets even more interesting.

Four months after his demotion, Mackel engaged in a drunken gun-wielding incident at his home of sufficient severity that the Baltimore County police department sent in their SWAT team. Mackel was non-compliant with officers and obviously (the responding officers reported) intoxicated.

Despite being tasered by the SWAT team, the armed and intoxicated Mackel managed to barricade himself in his bedroom.

After that, the police record apparently gets vague, without any clear explanation for how the incident ended.

For some bizarre reason–I am shocked, SHOCKED!–Mackel was not arrested following these remarkable events.

I rather expect that if I had engaged in the same behavior in Baltimore County an arrest–if only to secure my assessment by psychiatric personnel–would have been effected post haste.

But who am I to speculate.

COMMENT: That's some lead investigator.  And on his work the fate of six police officers may rest.  But I have a feeling that the courts will trim the charges considerably.  And there may well be further pressure for the prosecutor to step aside.

The politics are appalling.  But the mob must be fed.

May 11, 2015