Charges dismissed against Memphis BLM founder in voter fraud case by Hannah Nightingale for The Post Millennial
GNN Note – Another case of republican white-privilege. / END
“In the interest of judicial economy, we are dismissing her illegal registration case and her violation of probation,” the district attorney stated.
Charges have been dropped against Memphis BLM founder Pamela Moses who had been sentenced in January to over six years in prison for illegally registering to vote back in 2019.
Moses had been placed on probation for seven years in 2015 after she pled guilty to tampering with evidence and forgery, both felonies, and to misdemeanor counts of perjury, stalking, theft under $500, and escape.
Moses had claimed that no one explained that her guilty plea would remove her ability to register to vote, and was under the impression that her voting rights had been restored when she went to vote in 2019.
At the sentencing, Judge Michael Ward accused Moses of deceiving the probation department in order to be able to vote. “You tricked the probation department into giving you documents saying you were off probation,” Ward said in court.
Moses claimed in the courtroom that that was not her intent. “I did not falsify anything. All I did was try to get my rights to vote back the way the people at the election commission told me and the way the clerk did,” she said at the hearing.
Moses was granted a new trial in February, after The Guardian published a document later that month undermining the prosecution’s claims that she “tricked the probation department.”
An investigation undertaken by officials at the Tennessee department of corrections found that the probation officer who signed the certificate saying Moses’ probation was complete made a good-faith mistake.
According to The Guardian, “Billington [the probation officer] came across a note in Moses’ file noting that in 2016, she had been placed on supervised probation for two years. Even though the system said that Moses remained on unsupervised probation, Billington thought this was a mistake. The person who handled the file, he believed, forgot to close out the case when the supervised probation ran out. That’s why he ultimately signed Moses’ voting certificate saying her probation had expired in 2018 and she was eligible to vote.”
