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Sam Levine

‘It’s a scare tactic’: Pamela Moses, the Black woman jailed over voting error, speaks out

A woman sits on a brick ledge outside.
‘I believe, not only if I wasn’t Black, but if my name wasn’t Pamela Moses, this probably never would have been a case.’ Photograph: Houston Cofield/The Guardian

Pamela Moses, the Memphis woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register to vote, says she is grateful to be released – but believes the case against her was a “scare tactic” to discourage other people from casting a ballot.

Moses was released from prison on bond on 25 February after a judge unexpectedly granted her request for a new trial, citing evidence, obtained by the Guardian, that had not been disclosed to Moses’ defense.

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