TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jun 30, 2022

A Shelby County woman contesting a permanent revocation of her voting rights must now take her case to a Special Three-Judge Trial Court, the Daily Memphian reports. Pamela Moses says she was unaware that pleading guilty in 2015 to a felony charge related to evidence tampering would result in permanently losing her voting rights. She filed paperwork to restore her right to vote in 2019 and, in January, was sentenced to six years in prison for illegally registering to vote. Those charges were ultimately dismissed in April. Shelby County Circuit Judge Felicia Corbin-Johnson yesterday determined that Moses’ case to restore her voting rights was not within the jurisdiction of the district attorney’s office and that the attorney general would need to be the opposing party in the matter. The three-judge panel will be selected by the Supreme Court and will consist of Corbin-Johnson and trial judges from the Middle and Eastern Districts.