Texas remains a southern state where a ruling elite exploits racism to maintain its grip on power. The Tarrant County DA is engaging in this vindictive legal pursuit of Crystal Mason to intimidate African American voters and to stoke resentment amongst other Texans.
Tarrant County DA challenges Crystal Mason’s acquittal | The Texas Tribune
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/25/crystal-mason-illegal-voting-texas-tarrant-county/
#Texas court overturns #CrystalMason’s conviction for illegal #voting
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/29/2232268/-Texas-court-overturns-Crystal-Mason-s-conviction-for-illegal-voting
Crystal Mason, sentenced to five years after trying to #vote, finally #acquitted
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/29/crystal-mason-sentenced-to-five-years-after-trying-to-vote-finally-acquitted.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/28/crystal-mason-texas-woman-acquitted
Mason gained national attention after she was convicted for voting while under supervised release for felony tax fraud. She said she didn’t know she was ineligible to vote. By Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune March 28, 2024 Sign up for The Brief,...
#CrystalMason: #Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error #acquitted. Appeals court rules Mason, now 49, did not know she was ineligible when she voted in 2016 and throws out conviction
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/28/crystal-mason-texas-woman-acquitted
A #Texas appeals court reversed the conviction of #CrystalMason, a Black woman, who had been sentenced to 5 yrs in prison on a charge of illegally voting in 2016, acquitting her in a case that #CivilRights attys cast as part of a broader fight for #VotingRights.
Mason voted w/a provisional ballot in 2016 but did not know she was ineligible to do so. The ballot WAS NOT COUNTED, but she was convicted in 2018.
#law #GOP #BlackVotesMatter #VoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/29/crystal-mason-acquitted-voter-fraud-texas/
"A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, who was given a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while on supervised release for federal tax evasion."
"The decision by the Tarrant County-based Second Court of Appeals means she is formally acquitted of the felony voting charge. The court said in the decision that there was no evidence Mason knew she was ineligible to vote when she cast her ballot — which is a condition that must be met in order to convict her of illegal voting."
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/28/texas-illegal-voting-conviction-crystal-mason/
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