A Black Lives Matter activist sentenced to prison earlier this year after being convicted of illegal voter registration had her criminal charges dropped and will no longer face a new trial, a district attorney said on Friday.
Pamela Moses, 44, described by some outlets as the founder of a BLM chapter in Memphis, was sentenced in January to six years and one day after being convicted of illegally registering to vote in Tennessee as a convicted felon. Moses had felony convictions in 2015, making her ineligible to register to vote.
“Moses will not be tried a second time on the felony charge of illegally registering to vote,” Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said in an April 22 statement. In all, Moses has “spent 82 days in custody … which is sufficient,” she added.
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