woman gets five years in prison for voting
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that'll show her.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article2071...
FORT WORTH
A judge sentenced a Rendon woman to five years in prison Wednesday for voting illegally in the 2016 presidential election while she was on supervised release from a 2011 fraud conviction.
Crystal Mason, 43, waived her right to a jury trial and chose to have state District Judge Ruben Gonzalez assess her sentence.
J. Warren St. John, her defense attorney, said after the verdict that an appeal had already been filed and that he is hopeful his client will soon be released on bond.
"I find it amazing that the government feels she made this up," St. John told the court. "She was never told that she couldn't vote, and she voted in good faith. Why would she risk going back to prison for something that is not going to change her life?"
According to a report released in 2016 compiled by the Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform advocacy group, more than 6 million felons in the United States and nearly 500,000 in Texas were ineligible to vote in 2016.
During her testimony, Mason — who served just shy of three years in federal prison — told the court that she was assigned a provisional ballot after she arrived at her usual polling place and discovered that her name was not on the voter roll.
Gonzalez, who questioned Mason during her testimony, asked why she did not thoroughly read the documents she was given at the time.
The form you are required to sign to get the provisional ballot is called an affidavit, Gonzales told Mason. "There's a legal connotation to that, right?" Gonzales asked.
Mason responded that she was never told by the federal court, her supervision officer, the election workers or U.S. District Judge John McBryde, the sentencing judge in her fraud case, that she would not be able to vote in elections until she finished serving her sentence, supervised release included. She also said she did not carefully read the form because an election official was helping her.
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>> She was never told that
>> She was never told that she couldn't vote
Yeah, that's not how it works. I can't believe a real lawyer is attempting that line of argument.
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Square this lady's sentence
Square this lady's sentence with this guy's sentence.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/28/claude-lee-wilkerson-grand-junctio...
A Colorado man accused of keeping a woman chained in his basement over the course of several months has been sentenced to six years in prison and three years of parole in exchange for his guilty plea.
The Grand Junction Sentinel reports that Claude Lee Wilkerson was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to false imprisonment and second-degree assault.
He was arrested in February 2016 on suspicion of holding a woman as a sex slave for months.
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>>>I can't believe a real
>>>I can't believe a real lawyer is attempting that line of argument.
If one of the elements of the offense is that she had to have knowledge that she wasn't allowed to vote then of course they would make that argument.
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>> she had to have knowledge
>> she had to have knowledge that she wasn't allowed to vote
She signed an affidavit explaining in clear language she wasn't allowed to vote until she served her full term if she was a felon.
How can she say she didn't have knowledge? There is documented, signed, witnessed proof of it
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I can sign a document
I can sign a document regarding molecular biology saying I read it...doesn't mean I understand the content.
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>> I can sign a document
>> I can sign a document regarding molecular biology saying I read it...doesn't mean I understand the content.
Ned,
That a silly comparison. Here's the document. It's one page. It's clear and easy to read.
TO BE COMPLETED BY VOTER: I am a registered voter of this political subdivision and in the precinct in which I’m attempting to vote and have not already voted in this election (either in person or by mail). I am a resident of this political subdivision, have not been finally convicted of a felony or if a felon, I have completed all of my punishment including any term of incarceration, parole, supervision, period of probation, or I have been pardoned. I have not been determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote. I understand that giving false information under oath is a misdemeanor, and I understand that it is a felony of the 2nd degree to vote in an election for which I know I am not eligible.
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Great, she’s guilty.
Great, she’s guilty.
How about probation??????
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Just because you clearly
Just because you clearly understand it doesn't mean she does, or even can. That is the defense, and it has legs.
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Ned,
Ned,
Serious, non-rhetorical question - if a felon illegally bought a gun and signed an affidavit saying they weren't a felon as a requirement, would you have the same feelings?
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"That(s) a silly comparison"
"That(s) a silly comparison"
Voting versus buying a deadly weapon? Intent.
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Buying a gun has nefarious
edit.... I give up.
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It IS frustrating when people
It IS frustrating when people have a different point of view. I get it.
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This NC woman didn't even get
This NC woman didn't even get charged for voting Trump on behalf of her dead mother. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say she was white...
http://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/nc-woman-fulfills-moms-dyi...
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>>>Claude Lee Wilkerson
>>>Claude Lee Wilkerson
^Nick Hikingman's real name.