Baltimore prosecutor files petition to erase pot convictions

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s top prosecutor has filed a rarely used legal petition intended to vacate 3,778 convictions for possession of marijuana.
In an unusual “Maryland v Maryland” filing in state court, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby says the legal effort is necessary to “right an extraordinary wrong.” The petition, if granted, would acknowledge an error of fact in the cases and wipe out the pot possession convictions.
Mosby says in the Tuesday fili