Colorado court orders resentencing for Tina Peters, election clerk backed by Trump
A Colorado appeals court on Thursday ruled that Tina Peters, a former elections clerk who was the first local official convicted over efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election, should be resentenced.
Peters, who served as a clerk in Mesa County, was sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted on seven of the 10 counts she faced. Prosecutors said she sneaked in a man associated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a staunch Trump ally, to make a copy of the county’s voter systems, with the aim of exposing alleged fraud.
Judges on the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that a lower court wrongly weighed Peters’s continued promotion of 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories in deciding her sentence.
“We reverse her sentence because it was based in part on improper consideration of her exercise of her right to free speech,” the court wrote, sending her case back to the trial judge for resentencing.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5812883-tina-peters-resentencing-colorado-elections/