Colorado appeals court orders resentencing for election conspiracist Tina Peters
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A Colorado appeals court ordered a resentencing for Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted of crimes related to unauthorized access of her county's election system in 2021. Peters was initially sentenced to nine years after a photo and video of confidential voting system passwords were leaked online following her allowing an outside expert to copy the system during a software update. While the appeals court upheld her conviction, it ruled that the original judge improperly considered Peters' continued promotion of election fraud conspiracies when issuing the sentence in 2024. The court sent the case back to a lower court for resentencing, finding that the initial sentence punished Peters for exercising free speech. The case has become a cause célèbre among election conspiracy theorists, with Donald Trump unsuccessfully seeking a pardon for Peters and criticizing Colorado for her continued imprisonment.
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AI-ExtractedColorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said the original sentence had been “fair and appropriate.”
President Donald Trump has sought unsuccessfully to pardon Peters and pressured Colorado to set her free.
The appeals court upheld her conviction but said the judge should not have considered Peters’ continued promotion of election fraud conspiracies when sentencing her.
Peters was convicted of state crimes for sneaking in an outside computer expert to copy her county’s election computer system.
A Colorado appeals court ruled that Tina Peters should be resentenced.
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