Crystal Mason, Tarrant County
Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells wants Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction reinstated, his office has announced. Mason, a Tarrant County resident, was acquitted of an ...
A Texas county prosecutor is seeking to reinstate the conviction of Crystal Mason, a Black woman whose five-year sentence for voter fraud put the sweeping nature of Texas’ strict voting laws ...
Mason, a mother of three, was sentenced to five years in prison after she voted in the 2016 election, despite being on supervised release following a conviction for felony tax fraud. Mason said ...
Crystal Mason thought she was performing her civic duty by filling out a provisional ballot in the 2016 election. She didn’t know it would land her a five-year prison sentence, upending her family ...
A Texas appeals court recently overturned Mason’s five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while on supervised release for federal tax evasion. Sign up for ...
Crystal Mason in Fort Worth on Sept. 9, 2019. (Leslie Boorhem-Stephenson For The Texas Tribune, Leslie Boorhem-Stephenson For The Texas Tribune) Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive ...