6 Yrs For Exercising Your Rights

[GURPS]

One of these things is not like the other. But while Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich agrees that prison term isn't proportional to the offense, she says it is justified for a different reason: the defendant, Pamela Moses, insisted on going to trial.

"I gave her a chance to plead to a misdemeanor with no prison time," Weirich said in a statement. "She requested a jury trial instead. She set this unfortunate result in motion and a jury of her peers heard the evidence and convicted her."

Six years of freedom is quite the steep price to pay for exercising her constitutional right to trial.

Pamela Moses 'Requested a Jury Trial.' So She Got 6 Years in Prison.

A Tennessee woman was sentenced last month to six years and one day in prison for illegally registering to vote while on probation. Given the nature of

reason.com

 

[glhs837]

Yep, question The Man, gotta be made an example of.

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

Thinking she was hoping that her black privilege would save her. Apparently she found out otherwise.

 

[black dog]

Well, maf is hard for some.

 

[vraiblonde]

ACTUALLY she's doing 6 years for voter fraud, not for "exercising her rights".

"I gave her a chance to plead to a misdemeanor with no prison time," Weirich said in a statement. "She requested a jury trial instead. She set this unfortunate result in motion and a jury of her peers heard the evidence and convicted her."

The judge wanting to let her off is the scandal, not a jury finding her guilty of something she did and should be punished for.

This is why I can't stand Reason - they are effing batshit crazy propagandists.

 

[vraiblonde]

Yep, question The Man, gotta be made an example of.

Except that's not what happened. Like, at all.

 

[Ken King]

The District Attorney wanting to let her off is the scandal,

FIFY

 

[gemma_rae]

Isn't committing a crime while on probation a violation of probation? I could be mistaken, but I thought if you violated your probation you had to go back and finish your original sentence, and you also get a little more time tacked on because VOP is an additional crime, along with the crime you committed while on probation.

Being stupid is not a valid defense in some jurisdictions.