With today’s acquittal of Baltimore police lieutenant Brian Rice, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby had suffered the fourth devastating loss in the high-profile Freddie Gray case.

So what were the faces of former Episcopal Bishop Heather Cook and so-called “Public Enemy No. 1,” Darryl Anderson, doing on her office’s Twitter page?

Stories about these months-old cases, it seems, were being recirculated today to the 4,000-plus followers of @BaltimoreSAO to remind the public of a time when the young state’s attorney was better known for her successes than her failures.

In Cook’s case, the SAO reached back to last October when the ex-bishop suffragan, the No. 2 position in the Episcopal Church of Maryland, was sentenced to seven years for plowing into a bicyclist on Roland Avenue while drunk and texting two days after Christmas 2014.

In Anderson’s case, the 240-year sentence for multiple counts of murder and other crimes was handed down in March.

And “ICYMI: Sex Offender Nelson Clifford Sentenced To More Than 31 Years” was the set-up for a link to a WJZ piece from back in May about the serial rapist.

Calls and Catcalls

As Mosby was playing an oblique form of reputational defense on social media, calls were mounting in some quarters for her office to drop the remaining cases of the six officers that she brought last year. At this point, the prosecutions have resulted in three acquittals and a hung jury.

Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry G. Williams, who found Rice today not guilty on all charges, cleared two other officers prosecuted using the same legal arguments.

The jury in the case of Sgt. William Porter could not reach a verdict. Porter is scheduled to be tried again, and trials are still scheduled for Sgt. Alicia White and Officer Garrett Miller.

“We again strongly urge Mrs. Mosby to stop her malicious prosecution against the remaining three officers,” Gene S. Ryan, head of the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, told the media today, repeating his call of last month when Officer Caesar Goodson was acquitted.

Ryan couldn’t resist a further dig, saying, “If Mrs. Mosby’s office is willing to violate rules in these high-profile cases, we can only imagine what her office is doing in the cases that affect the citizens of Baltimore every day when no media is around.”

Also sounding off today was Barry Slotnick, the defender of “Subway Vigilante” Bernhard Goetz, who was quoted in The Washington Times as saying, “It’s quite clear that the prosecution should not continue on. The prosecution in the next three cases should strongly make a suggestion in court – on the record – that these cases have not been proven and will not be proven and therefore they should be dismissed.”

Who Broke Gray’s Spine?

Others reacting today to the Rice case faulted Mosby more for failing to mount a prosecution that would hold someone accountable for the death of Freddie Gray, who suffered severe spinal injuries after police detained him in West Baltimore in April 2015.

“So I guess a ghost broke Freddie Gray’s spine,” Keisha Allen, president of the Westport Neighbrhood Association, tweeted.

“It is amazing that a person can die in police custody and no one will be held criminally responsible for this,” @bosconet agreed.

Many complained that the prosecution’s continued failures stem not from the conduct of the Mosby deputies arguing the cases but from the misguided injury scenario behind it – that the Gray’s neck was broken by a rough van ride rather than by rough treatment by police officers.

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