Possible justice in Memphis

Taniel has been following this race closely, where DA Amy Weirich prosecuted Pamela Moses for wanting to vote, initially obtaining a six year sentence, a Griener like dose of “justice.” It also signaled to black people the danger of trying to vote.

Looks like it will hold, and that many wicked actors in the local injustice system have been purged through the Democratic process, as shown in the thread. Of course, as we learned in Hillsborough County yesterday, The Empire has a way of striking back when the people resist.

Weirich, Mark Ward and the Juvenile Court Judge should hope they are not judged as they have judged.

 

Twitter handle. Great feed to follow national election results in down ballot races. He's pretty thorough

 

That's called the inner voice of motivated reasoning. It's not real

 

There are links in the tweets. But essentially the racist DA and other warped members of the local criminal justice system were removed through the democratic process. Of course, there tends to be backlash of these things and suppression of democratic outcomes not favored by the power structure, so we'll see if it's allowed to actually take hold

 

Here's a piece from the Guardian. It doesn't cover the other races, including the sentencing judge that also lost

Amy Weirich, the Memphis prosecutor who stirred national outrage for bringing criminal charges against a Black woman for trying to register to vote, has lost her re-election bid.

Earlier this year, Weirich trumpeted a criminal conviction and six-year prison sentence for Pamela Moses, who tried to restore her right to vote after a 2015 felony conviction. Tennessee’s rules for restoring voting rights are extremely confusing, and Weirich’s office brought charges against Moses even though a probation officer had signed off on a form saying she was eligible. Prosecutors argued she had deceived the officer into signing off on the form.


But after the trial, the Guardian published a document showing that the Tennessee department of corrections had investigated the error and made no mention of deception. Instead, the department blamed the officer. Weirich’s office failed to turn over the document to Moses’ defense team before trial, leading a judge to take the extremely rare step of overturning her conviction and ordering a new trial. Weirich said her office was not to blame for the mistake because the department of corrections failed to give her office the document.

It was not the first time Weirich had come under fire for failing to disclose evidence to a defendant – a 2017 study found her office had more instances of misconduct than any prosecutor in the state from 2010 to 2015. In 2017, she also accepted a private reprimand from the Tennessee board of professional responsibility for casting aspersions on a defendant’s decision not to testify during a murder trial.

Memphis prosecutor who charged Black woman over voting error loses re-election bid