Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s one-year sentence of home detention, following her conviction for perjury and mortgage fraud, ended today.

U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby ordered that her passport be returned “for international travel” and ruled that a $1,447 ankle-bracelet monitoring fee be waived.

Griggsby agreed that the monitoring fee, required as a standard condition of release, “is too much of a financial constraint on Ms. Mosby at this time.”

Mosby “has been financially devastated over the course of her prosecution,” and she is “now a single mother of two children with limited resources and many bills to pay,” her public defender, James Wyda, said in a court filing, alluding specifically to her credit card debt. (Mosby was sued in February for $26,000 in unpaid Bank of America card debt.)

During her year of home detention, Mosby was given wide latitude by Griggsby to take out-of-state business trips, including to California where she was hired as director of global strategy for God’s Love Outreach Ministries Inc. (G.L.O.M. Global).

The church-based nonprofit is trying to expand its Oakland area chain of transitional housing and substance abuse facilities to Maryland.

Watching Horse Races

Beginning in January and lasting until this week, Judge Griggsby – without explanation – blocked from public view all of Mosby’s requests for travel and other court matters.

Some of Mosby’s activities away from home and outside of Baltimore during that period, however, have been detailed through her social media.

In early May, for instance, Mosby posted a photo of herself attending the Virginia Gold Cup Races, an annual celebration of Virginia hunt country tradition that dates back to the 1920s.

Held in Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia – west of Dulles International Airport and about 85 miles from Baltimore – the steeplechase race is considered one of the state’s biggest outdoor social events.

Like other guests at the May 3 event, Mosby was attired in race-day finery and a fancy hat – in her case, a chapeau formed to look a huge, dewy, pink rose about the size of a manhole cover.

Mosby appears not to be wearing the ankle monitor.

“It’s the who’s who, the heavy hitters, the horsepower,” event planner Susan Smallwood posted, from her @grandiosityevents account, noting also that Mosby had won a prize for her hat.

Mosby smiles and waves in Smallwood’s video, gripping a silver trophy and a clear plastic case holding her prize:

A pair of shiny black stiletto-heeled Christian Laboutin pumps, with their distinctive lustrous-red soles.

Smallwood explained in the video that this was the Emmanuel S. Bailey VIP party and that about 400 people, including Mosby, were in attendance.

Like The Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, which Mosby also attended in May, this horse race has invitation-only corporate-sponsored VIP tents with catered food and open bars.

Ending Supervised Release Early?

Under the terms of Mosby’s original sentence, her home detention was to be followed by three years of supervised release.

Griggsby’s court order today, however, notes that Mosby has indicated she will request early termination of supervised release with the approval of her probation officer.

Yesterday Mosby posted a photo of herself attending the first day of this weekend’s State of the People National Assembly.

One stop in a multi-city tour, it’s an initiative led by Rev. Jamal Bryant and others “to rally, restore and reimagine what’s possible for Black communities in the U.S.”

Other scheduled participants at the Empowerment Temple AME Church event in Baltimore are civil rights attorney Ben Crump, former MSNBC host Joy Reid, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, and podcaster Angela Rye, who spearheaded an unsuccessful drive to convince former President Joe Biden to pardon Mosby before he left office.