Faced with objections from the U.S. Probation Office and federal prosecutors, U.S. District Court Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby denied Marilyn Mosby’s latest request – to dine over four nights with a prospective employer in California while serving her one year of home detention.

Following her conviction on perjury and mortgage fraud charges, Baltimore’s former state’s attorney has been given wide latitude by the court to engage in speaking and other paid engagements while restricted to her Fells Point apartment in lieu of a prison sentence.

Mosby can leave her apartment for a number of reasons, including employment opportunities, education, religious services, medical and mental health treatment, and child care obligations. But permission to travel out of state must be approved by her probation officer.

The Brew has documented how Mosby used these exceptions to travel to New York and Boston to address an obscure conference on the mental health of incarcerated women and to attend a probate hearing regarding her late mother’s estate.

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She also was granted an eight-day leave from Baltimore between September 29 and October 6 to travel to an unnamed company in Livermore, Calif., to attend “in-person training, orientation and meetings with leadership before the employer determines whether to move forward with an official offer of employment,” according to court records.

The U.S. Probation Office’s home detention policy allows a defendant 50 hours of “leave” in a week.

This time around, however, Probation Officer Rachel Snyder opposed Mosby’s request to attend four staff dinners in California, saying such activities would exceed the allowed 50 hours of leave in a week under the home detention policy.

Snyder further argued that Mosby should not be considered “staff” because no employment offer had been made by the company.

The Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office, which did not object to Mosby’s earlier travels, also opposed her attendance at the dinners.

Mosby’s attorney, James Wyda, protested, saying “the scheduled staff dinners during Ms. Mosby’s orientation week come within this employment-related exception because they will give Ms. Mosby an opportunity to network with prospective team members and demonstrate why she would be a valuable colleague who should receive a final employment offer.”

Judge Griggsby sided with the government. There has been no further information about the status of the prospective job offer, which would require Mosby to travel throughout Maryland for the company.

Actively seeking a pardon from President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris if she wins in November, Mosby says her felony convictions were part of a vendetta against progressive Black state’s attorneys by the Trump administration. She has appealed her convictions to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.

In her Justice for Marilyn Mosby website and elsewhere, the former Baltimore prosecutor complains she is under “house arrest” by the government.