Marilyn Mosby: “The world is literally watching to see if America’s justice system lives up to the ideals and the promise of ensuring…”

So, one of the things that I recognized, as a prosecutor, my ability to shape the criminal justice system, recognizing, as I stated, that these low-level offenses for black people in this country can lead to a death sentence.

We're not yet declaring, not yet declaring Adnan Syed's innocent. But we are declaring that in the interest of fairness and justice, he is entitled to a new trial.

I offered to prove my innocence by making myself available to present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury. But the U.S. attorney and the lead prosecutor in the case, who has donated to my political opponents and who has personal animus…

I mean, to be honest with you, as -- I expected, as the state’s attorney, that fighting for racial justice in the criminal justice system, fighting to end mass incarceration in a state where you have the largest sort of incarceration of…