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Prosecutor to appeal against Texas woman’s acquittal over voting error
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Last month, the second court of appeals, which is based in Fort Worth, threw out the 2018 conviction of Crystal Mason, a Black woman who submitted a provisional ballot in 2016 that ultimately went uncounted.
Mason was on supervised release for a federal felony at the time she voted and has said she had no idea she was ineligible.
This office will protect the ballot box from fraudsters who think our laws don’t apply to them,” Sorrells said in a statement.
“The second court of appeals’ publication of its opinion creates the very real risk that future sufficiency cases will likewise be wrongly analyzed and decided.”
“It is disappointing that the State has chosen to request further review of Ms Mason’s case, but we are confident that justice will ultimately prevail.
It is time to give Ms Mason peace with her family,” Thomas Buser-Clancy, an attorney with the Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in an email.
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