I called Moses’ cases a “legal lynching” a few weeks ago because it bore all the markings of a deliberate attempt to terrorize and send a message of racial subjugation to other Black voters. While whites committing actual voter fraud have gotten probation or misdemeanors, Moses – who merely tried to register to vote – got six years.
Guardian reporter Sam Levine explains the case.
The prosecution’s case is built around the argument that Moses knew she was ineligible to vote because she was on probation, and people on felony probation in Tennessee cannot vote. Indeed, a few months before she tried to register, a judge had issued an order telling Moses her probation was ongoing. But nevertheless, prosecutors argued, she convinced a probation officer into signing a form saying she was eligible to vote and then knowingly submitted the document knowing it was false. “You tricked the probation department into giving you documents saying you were off probation,” W Mark Ward, the judge who sentenced Moses, said in January.
Moses, for her part, told me she did not know she was ineligible and her lawyers have said she went to the probation office genuinely seeking clarity about whether she could vote.
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