Marilyn Mosby Seeks Protective Order To Block Release Of Freddie Gray’s Autopsy
Baltimore City state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby hopes to block the release of the autopsy of Freddie Gray and other documents related to the investigation into the 25-year-old’s April 19 death.
The protective order, filed Monday and reported by The Baltimore Sun, is raising accusations from an attorney for one of the six officers charged in the Gray case that Mosby’s request shows that the autopsy is her case.
When Mosby announced charges against the officers on May 1, she said that Gray sustained a broken neck while riding in the back of a police transport van. She also said his death was ruled a homicide and that officers failed to properly restrain him and to provide him with adequate medical attention.
Gray’s autopsy was released only to Mosby’s office, as required by state law. The Baltimore police department, which was conducting a parallel investigation at the same time Mosby’s investigators were conducting one of their own, was not provided the results of the autopsy.
If Mosby’s request for the protective order is granted, only the state’s attorney’s office and defense attorneys would be allowed to view the autopsy results and any other new filings in the case.
Ivan Bates, the attorney for Alicia White, the lone female officer charged in the case, told the Sun that Mosby’s motion indicates “there is something in that autopsy report that they are trying to hide.”
“Mrs. Mosby is the one who did an announcement discussing what she said the evidence was in a nationally televised speech, and now that it is time to turn over the evidence, to ask for a protective order is beyond disingenuous,” Bates told the Sun. “It’s as if she wants to do everything to make sure our clients do not get a fair trial.”
“Nobody would know anything but the state and the defense, so they would totally hide it from the public,” he added. “If your case is as good as you said it was, why don’t you just show the evidence?”
“You can’t holler and say, ‘I’m about accountability for the citizens,’ and then run around filing for a protective order.”
Mosby has been nothing if not a polarizing figure in the case. She drew accolades and criticism for saying during her public May 1 charging announcement that she had heard protesters’ cries of “no justice, no peace,” and that she intended to provide justice for Gray, who was arrested April 12 following a foot chase with police.
The six officers face a total of 28 charges in the case. Caesar Goodson Jr., the driver of the van transporting Gray, faces a second-degree depraved-heart murder charge and a manslaughter charge. Three other officers, including White, face several manslaughter charges as well.
Mosby has not publicly explained what warrants the second-degree murder charge or the manslaughter charges.
NOAA: 15 Years With No Global Warming Was An Illusion
NOAA Fiddles With Climate Data To Erase The 15-Year Global Warming ‘Hiatus’
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have found a solution to the 15-year “pause” in global warming: They “adjusted” the hiatus in warming out of the temperature record.
New climate data by NOAA scientists doubles the warming trend since the late 1990s by adjusting pre-hiatus temperatures downward and inflating temperatures in more recent years.
“Newly corrected and updated global surface temperature data from NOAA’s [National Centers for Environmental Information] do not support the notion of a global warming ‘hiatus,'” wrote NOAA scientists in their study presenting newly adjusted climate data.
To increase the rate in warming, NOAA scientists put more weight on certain ocean buoy arrays, adjusted ship-based temperature readings upward, and slightly raised land-based temperatures as well. Scientists said adjusted ship-based temperature data “had the largest impact on trends for the 2000-2014 time period, accounting for 0.030°C of the 0.064°C trend difference.” They added that the “buoy offset correction contributed 0.014°C… to the difference, and the additional weight given to the buoys because of their greater accuracy contributed 0.012°C.”
NOAA says for the years 1998 to 2012, the “new analysis exhibits more than twice as much warming as the old analysis at the global scale,” at 0.086 degrees Celsius per decade compared to 0.039 degrees per decade.
“This is clearly attributable to the new [Sea Surface Temperature] analysis, which itself has much higher trends,” scientists noted in their study. “In contrast, trends in the new [land surface temperature] analysis are only slightly higher.”
Global surface temperature data shows a lack of statistically significant warming over the last 15 years — a development that has baffled climate scientists. Dozens of explanations have been offered to explain the hiatus in warming, but those theories may be rendered moot by NOOA’s new study.
NOAA’s study, however, notes the overall warming trend since 1880 has not been significantly changed. What’s increased is the warming trend in recent decades.
“Our new analysis now shows the trend over the period 1950-1999, a time widely agreed as having significant anthropogenic global warming, is 0.113 [degrees Celsius per decade], which is virtually indistinguishable with the trend over the period 2000-2014″ of 0.116 degrees per decade, according to the study.
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “statement of two years ago — that the global surface temperature has shown a much smaller increasing linear trend over the past 15 years than over the past 30 to 60 years’ — is no longer valid,” the study claims.
But that’s not all NOAA did to increase the warming trend in recent decades. Climate expert Bob Tisdale and meteorologist Anthony Watts noted that to “manufacture warming during the hiatus, NOAA adjusted the pre-hiatus data downward.”
“If we subtract the [old] data from the [new] data… we can see that that is exactly what NOAA did,” Tisdale and Watts wrote on the science blog Watts Up With That.
“It’s the same story all over again; the adjustments go towards cooling the past and thus increasing the slope of temperature rise,” Tisdale and Watts added. “Their intent and methods are so obvious they’re laughable.”
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Calif. Congressman Gives State One More Drought Year Before Water Supplies Run Out
WASHINGTON — If California slogs through one more drought riddled year like the two previous ones, large population centers like San Diego and Los Angeles will be facing “catastrophic” consequences, says one California congressman from the San Joaquin Valley.
“It is catastrophic in the San Joaquin Valley, but it will also become catastrophic for large population centers, but right now they are down to where they can water their grass twice a week and they had to cut their use to 25 percent,” California Rep. Devin Nunes told The Daily Caller. “That still allows your grass to be green and all of that. One more year [like the previous two] and nobody will have anything.”
Nunes told TheDC that it is unnoticeable to residents in California large southern cities because they get their water supply from not only the California Delta but also two other sources — Owens Valley and the Colorado River. Other parts of the state like the San Joaquin Valley and other rural areas are reliant on ground water.
“So there’s ground water. You dig deep wells and you pump it out of the ground. That’s what’s allowing us to survive,” Nunes warned. “But it’s going to keep getting worse, and we’re basically at a red line.”
“One more drought year and we’re in big trouble. You’re going to have entire cities running out of water,” he said noting that the reservoirs cities rely on would be tapped dry.
California Democrats like Gov. Jerry Brown. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer blame climate change for the drought troubles their state is facing. Brown says the lack of water in his state proves that climate change “is not a hoax,” and Boxer’s answer to the receding supply of California’s reservoirs is to reduce carbon pollution and “provide critical financing for water infrastructure projects identified by local communities, such as desalination, water recycling, and repair of aging water supply infrastructure.”
However, Nunes and others in his party say that abuse of the 42-year-old Endangered Species Act (ESA) is drying up his district, his state and killing the West Coast’s agricultural industry.
“The [water supply] system was built to withstand five years worth of drought. So three winters ago we had the wettest winter in like 30 years and we essentially let all of that water go,” Nunes explained, who has proposed legislation himself to deal with the water emergency in his state.
“So what’s happening is because of the Endangered Species Act, you have the big pumping stations that move the water throughout the state have been barely running since 2008,” he said.
“So the problem is that we’ve had all this water that historically we used to get that we haven’t been getting. That’s why the whole state is out of water. It’s not because of the drought. It’s not unusual to have a drought. That’s why they build the system to withstand five years of drought.”
So where does ESA come in? According to Nunes, environmentalists brought a series of lawsuits forward to protect a fish known as the Smelt.
“Smelt typically is endangered, and the environmental groups say it’s endangered because there’s not enough fresh water going into the Delta, and the courts have agreed. Until we act federally and say that’s out of bounds of the Endangered Species Act.”
He continued, “This is going to continue, because it’s not based on science,” Nunes said. “It’s just based on the Endangered Species Act, which is unfortunate because the Delta Smelt is a brackish water fish. The amount of freshwater is pretty much irrelevant to the Delta Smelts’ survival.”
Nunes points out that since 1992 environmental regulations for the Delta Smelt have resulted in water diversions; however, the fish intended to protect dropped began to drop in population anyway.
Sen. Boxer disputes Nunes, telling The Daily Caller that the ESA is not the cause of California’s water problems.
“It has nothing to do with the drought out in California — zero, nothing. It has nothing to do with it,” she said. “We have fisherman who need to earn a living. It’s about the fishing industry and I want to save the salmon industry, and I want to save the farming industry. You can’t put those two industries against each other. It doesn’t make any sense.”
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