Shelby County District Attorney: Woman Convicted Of Illegal Voting Sign-Up

Press release from the Shelby County District Attorney:

November 6, 2021

     Nov. 6, 2021 – A Memphis woman who pled guilty in 2015 to two felony offenses was found guilty this week of illegally registering to vote in 2019, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich. 

     Defendant Pamela Moses, 44, faces four to eight years in prison when she is sentenced Dec. 10 in Criminal Court. She remains free on $10,000 bond.

     On April 29, 2015, she pled guilty to tampering with evidence and forgery, both felonies, and to misdemeanor counts of perjury, stalking, theft under $500 and escape. She was placed on probation for eight years. 

     Under the law, she also was rendered infamous because of her felony convictions and lost her rights of citizenship, including her right to vote. She was permanently deemed ineligible to register and vote in Tennessee because of the tampering with evidence conviction.

    Proof at trial this week showed that on Sept. 3, 2019, Moses filed a certificate of restoration and application for voter registration with the Shelby County Election Commission, falsely asserting that her sentence had expired and that she was eligible to register to vote.

    However, Moses was still serving her 2015 sentence on unsupervised probation at the time she filed the restoration documents.  

    The case was handled by Chief Prosecutor Kirby May of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 5 which prosecutes cases in General Sessions Division 13 and in Criminal Court Division 9.

     Nov. 6, 2021 – A Memphis woman who pled guilty in 2015 to two felony offenses was found guilty this week of illegally registering to vote in 2019, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich. 

     Defendant Pamela Moses, 44, faces four to eight years in prison when she is sentenced Dec. 10 in Criminal Court. She remains free on $10,000 bond.

     On April 29, 2015, she pled guilty to tampering with evidence and forgery, both felonies, and to misdemeanor counts of perjury, stalking, theft under $500 and escape. She was placed on probation for eight years. 

     Under the law, she also was rendered infamous because of her felony convictions and lost her rights of citizenship, including her right to vote. She was permanently deemed ineligible to register and vote in Tennessee because of the tampering with evidence conviction.

    Proof at trial this week showed that on Sept. 3, 2019, Moses filed a certificate of restoration and application for voter registration with the Shelby County Election Commission, falsely asserting that her sentence had expired and that she was eligible to register to vote.

    However, Moses was still serving her 2015 sentence on unsupervised probation at the time she filed the restoration documents.  

    The case was handled by Chief Prosecutor Kirby May of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 5 which prosecutes cases in General Sessions Division 13 and in Criminal Court Division 9.

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