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Sam Levine

Prosecutor drops all charges against Pamela Moses, jailed over voting error

Pamela Moses, who was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register to vote.
Pamela Moses, who was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register to vote. Photograph: Houston Cofield

A Memphis prosecutor has dropped all criminal charges against Pamela Moses, the Memphis woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register to vote.

Moses was convicted last year and sentenced in January. She was granted a new trial in February after the Guardian published a document showing that had not been given to her defense ahead of the trial.

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