Marilyn Mosby: Baltimore prosecutor appeared on Judge Judy civil court TV show and won

The prosecutor has been celebrated by some after charging six Baltimore police officers

Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore City prosecutor, got a lot of attention – from both social media and traditional news outlets – for her demeanour on television while announcing charges against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray. (Read more about that here)

It turns out it wasn’t her first time on television.

Back in 2000, Mrs Mosby, then known as Marilyn James, appeared on the famous television show Judge Judy.

Ms Mosby took her neighbour at the time to small claims court and won almost $2,000 in damages. She claimed that she left her college apartment for three months over the summer only to return to find the door broken and her apartment trashed. She told the television judge, “My apartment was a wreck.”

The neighbour – whose wife was pregnant at the time – claimed that someone had broken into the apartment and said he knew nothing about it, but Ms Mosby claimed that she found evidence of a baby shower.

“You think a burglar would make a baby shower?” Judge Judy asked the neighbor. “Mr. Johnson, what you did to this young woman was wrong. You figured she is a college student, she has no way of fighting back, she has nothing else to do … You took advantage of her.”

A spokesman for Ms Mosby confirmed she appeared on the show when she was studying at Tuskegee University in Alabama.

Follow @PaytonGuion on Twitter.