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Texas court ends case against woman sentenced to five years over voting error
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t countedThe nearly decade-long case of a Black Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison in a controversial illegal voting case will end with an acquittal, the state’s highest criminal court said in a 5-4 decision on Thursday.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 prosecuto...
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