Prosecutors in Texas asked the state’s highest criminal appeals court on Thursday to reverse a ruling that overturned a Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot. Last month, Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction was overturned by the Second Court of Appeals.
FILE - In this April 17, 2018, photo, Crystal Mason speaks to the media in downtown Dallas. Prosecutors in Texas asked the state’s highest criminal appeals court on Thursday, April 25, 2024 to reverse a ruling that overturned the Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot.
But the Second Court of Appeals ruled that even if she read the words on the affidavit, she may not have known that being on probation for a previous felony conviction left her ineligible to vote in 2016. Tommy Buser-Clancy, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, which has been one of Mason’s representatives in the case, said in a statement that the request for further review of Mason’s case was “disappointing,” but they were “confident that justice will ultimately prevail.”High schooler accused of killing fellow student on campus in Arlington, Texas“The court of appeals’ decision was well reasoned and correct. It is time to give Ms.
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