Lincoln black media
This website highlights political and social issues regarding the African American community in Lincoln Nebraska.
Category: Freedom
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I. Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights A. Civil rights The right to vote is not lost even upon incarceration. The right to serve on a jury is also not lost. See Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. Tit. 14, § 1211 (providing disqualifications for jury service, none of which refer to criminal history).1 The right to hold office…
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I. Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights A. Vote The right to vote “may be suspended” while a person is “under an order of imprisonment for conviction of a felony.” La. Const. art. I, § 10. This does not require actual imprisonment; disenfranchisement applies to people on parole, and also to probationers whose prison sentence was suspended. …
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I. Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights A. Vote/office Persons convicted of a felony lose the right to vote and it is restored only by expungement (available only for certain low-level felonies, see Part II-B, below) or personal action of the governor. See Ky. Const. § 145(1) (“Persons convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of treason,…
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I. Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights A. Civil Rights A person convicted of a felony loses the right to vote, to hold office, and to serve on a jury. Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-6613(a).1 These rights are automatically restored upon completion of the authorized sentence. § 21-6613(b). Upon satisfaction of conditional release or parole (or…
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I. Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights A. Vote/Office Under the Iowa Constitution, persons convicted of an “infamous crime” (any crime punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, which may include aggravated misdemeanors as well as felonies) are ineligible to vote or hold public office. Iowa Const. art. II, § 5; see Iowa Code § 48A.30(d). The rule…
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I. Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights A. Civil Rights Vote The Indiana Constitution authorizes the legislature to pass laws disenfranchising those convicted of an “infamous crime.” Ind. Const. art. 2, § 8 (“The General Assembly shall have power to deprive of the right of suffrage, and to render ineligible, any person convicted of an infamous crime.”).1 …
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I. Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights A. Vote The right to vote is lost if convicted of a felony and sentenced to imprisonment; it is regained upon release. See Ill. Const. art. III, § 2 (“A person convicted of a felony, or otherwise under sentence in a correctional institution or jail, shall lose the right to…
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I. Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights A. Civil Rights A “sentence of custody to the Idaho state board of correction” following a felony conviction “suspends all the civil rights of the person so sentenced, including the right to refuse treatment authorized by the sentencing court, and forfeits all public offices and all private trusts, authority or…
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I. Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights A. Vote Uniform Act on Status of Convicted Persons: The right of felony offenders to vote is suspended while actually incarcerated. “[I]f the defendant is placed on probation or the defendant is paroled after commitment to imprisonment, the defendant may vote during the period of the probation or parole.” …
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I. Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights A. Civil rights “No person who has been convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude may register, remain registered, or vote except upon completion of the sentence.” Ga. Const. art. II, § 1, para. III(a). The right to vote is restored automatically “upon completion of the sentence.” Id. “No person…