United States of America v. Clifton Mosley

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with witness-murder and marijuana trafficking.



During trial, the Government presented evidence that Mosley was friends and
drug-trafficking partners with Davon Carter and Matthew Hightower. Hightower had been indicted for healthcare fraud and extortion, due to information provided to the authorities by his co-worker Lisa Edmonds. Edmonds was to be a key witness in Hightower’s upcoming trial.

The Government alleges that while Hightower was detained pretrial, Mosley and
Carter conspired with Hightower to murder Lisa Edmonds. Witness testimony and phones records show that Mosley and Carler were in communication with Hightower and each other, especially in the days and hours leading up to the murder at issue.
On May 27, 2016, two hours before Lisa Edmonds was due to attend a court hearing,
a man chased, shot, and killed her next-door neighbor, Latrina Ashburne. The Government alleges that the shooter, Davon Carter, had mistaken Ashburne for Edmonds. Police found surveillance footage of two cars circling the neighborhood in the hour before the shooting, and eventually traced the cars as being associated with Carter and Mosley.

Carter and Mosley were convicted after a 13-day trial of witness-murder and
marijuana trafficking. Mosley now appeals his conviction on three grounds: (1) that his witness-murder charges should have been severed from his marijuana trafficking charges; (2) that cell evidence found on Carter should have been suppressed under the Fourth Amendment; and (3) that there was insufficient evidence for a jury conviction.

Affirmed