Report: Texas court ends case against woman sentenced to five years over voting error

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Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted The nearly decade-long case of a Black Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison in a controversial illegal voting case is expected to end with an acquittal, the state’s highest criminal court stated in a 5-4 decision on Thursday. The report also notes that The woman, Crystal Mason, has been appealing against the case ever since her 2018 conviction for casting a provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted . In 2024, the Texas court of criminal appeals acquitted her in the case. The local prosecutor handling the case appealed that ruling to Texas’s highest criminal court, which initially agreed to hear it. But on Thursday, the court reversed itself, and stated it would not hear an appeal, letting the acquittal stand. It did not offer any explanation for why.

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