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Legal Experts Baffled By Sentence For Registering To Vote

February 12, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Legal Experts Baffled By Sentence For Registering To VoteA Tennessee activist was recently convicted for registering to vote while on probation. He was given a six year jail term which experts find excessive. From Associated Press. Here is an excerpt:

Some legal experts view as excessive and baffling the six-year prison sentence given to a Tennessee activist convicted of illegally registering to vote while on probation.

Pamela Moses was convicted in November and sentenced to six years and a day on Jan. 31 by Shelby County Criminal Court Judge W. Mark Ward. The judge told Moses that he would consider placing her on probation after nine months if she completes certain prison programs and maintains good behavior, the district attorney’s office in Memphis said in a news release.

Moses, who is Black, was convicted of multiple felonies and placed on probation in 2015, but she thought she was eligible to vote and tried to register in 2019. Some legal experts say the sentence illustrates the depth of the challenges faced by convicted felons when they try to have their voting rights restored and pointing out racial factors involved in the case.

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Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Felon Voting, Voter Access, Voter Registration

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