The Colorado Court of Appeals overturned Tina Peters’ prison sentence Thursday morning and ordered a lower court to re-evaluate her punishment.
Peters, 70, was convicted in 2024 of orchestrating a security breach of her county’s election system in 2021 in a failed attempt to find evidence of electronic vote manipulation. Her actions were rooted in conspiracies about the 2020 election.
Attorney General Phil Weiser, in a statement, called Peters’ original sentence fair and appropriate.
“Ms. Peters is in prison because of her own criminal conduct to prove false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 elections, and she has not shown any remorse for her actions,” Weiser said. “Whatever happens with her sentence, Tina Peters will always be a convicted felon who violated her duty as Mesa County clerk, put other lives at risk, and threatened our democracy. Nothing will remove that stain.”
The decision comes after President Donald Trump demanded that Gov. Jared Polis pardon Peters. The president threatened Colorado with the loss of federal funding if the state does not release her and lobbed personal insults at the governor in the process.
Trump issued a symbolic pardon of Peters last year, but because she was convicted of state crimes in a state court and sentenced by a state judge, the pardon had no effect.
This is a developing story that will be updated.
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