Article: PROSECUTOR'S HUSBAND ACQUITTED OF CHARGES THE CASE WAS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED, DAVID BALDWIN'S ATTORNEY SAYS.(LOCAL)

Byline: JON FRANK, STAFF WRITER

VIRGINIA BEACH -- A prosecutor's husband was acquitted of rape and sodomy charges Wednesday, leading his defense attorney to charge that the prosecution was a political attack orchestrated by the Virginia Beach commonwealth's attorney's office.

The defendant, David L. Baldwin, 37, walked out of Circuit Court a free man after the two-day trial. The jury deliberated 40 minutes.

Baldwin's wife, Ramona, was a prosecutor in Virginia Beach for seven years before she was fired in November. She sobbed for several minutes after the verdicts were read, then left the courtroom arm-in-arm with her husband.

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