clemency
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Tina Peters thanks Polis for shortening her sentence, calls Colorado Democrats’ censure a ‘travesty’
Two days after the Colorado Democratic Party formally condemned Gov. Jared Polis over his decision last week to shorten Tina Peters’ prison sentence for tampering with election equipment, Peters heaped praise on the term-limited Democrat and slammed his party for what she described as an attempt to bury the truth. “I feel it is important…
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Colorado Democrats launch petition to censure Gov. Jared Polis for releasing Tina Peters
Hundreds of Democrats, including party officials and current and former legislators, have signed a petition urging their party to formally censure Gov. Jared Polis over his decision to grant clemency to Tina Peters. The governor’s decision means Peters, the former Mesa County clerk and recorder who was sentenced to nine years’ incarceration for tampering with…
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis grants clemency to Tina Peters, makes her eligible for release from prison
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday granted clemency to Tina Peters and made the former Republican county clerk eligible for release from state prison as soon as early June, capping months of speculation that the Democratic governor would shorten a nearly nine-year sentence related to Peters’ role in a scheme to breach secure voting equipment.…
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Ethics panel says judge may assist former client with clemency petition without violating rules
A recently-appointed, part-time judge may help his former client ask for clemency without running afoul of the rules of judicial conduct, the Colorado Supreme Court’s ethics panel has advised. In a June 29 opinion, the Judicial Ethics Advisory Board answered the inquiry of a county court judge who wished to know if he could assist…
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Hickenlooper grants clemency to 17, upping total pardons to 40
DENVER – Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Thursday he has granted clemency to 17 people. None of the offenders is politically prominent and most of the offenses are relatively minor, including drug charges, burglaries and other such offenses. The governor offered clemency to an offender who committed crimes as a juvenile, as well as a…
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Hickenlooper grants clemency to 22, Dunlap not included
In 1972 James Wachsman pled no contest in Routt County, Colo., to selling marijuana. After serving his time, Wachsman went on to start a business and a family and became a productive member of his community. But that conviction has dogged Wachsman in at least one area: He likes to hunt. A letter sent to…
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Brauchler charges governor ‘violated state law’ when he granted pardon to Lima-Marin
George Brauchler, the Republican district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, said Friday night he believes Gov. John Hickenlooper broke the law when he granted a pardon to Rene Lima-Marin, a 38-year-old Aurora man who faces deportation to his native Cuba after a judge freed him earlier this week from a Colorado prison. “The governor…
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Gubernatorial hopefuls castigate, laud Hickenlooper for granting pardon to Lima-Marin
Colorado’s leading gubernatorial candidates mostly reacted along party lines Friday to word that Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, had pardoned Rene Lima-Marin in hopes of heading off plans by immigration officials to deport the Aurora man to Cuba. Democrats Mike Johnston and Cary Kennedy cheered the move, both citing what they termed the governor’s “humanity,”…
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Hickenlooper pardons Rene Lima-Marin in effort to head off deportation to Cuba
Calling it a “question of justice,” Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday granted a full and unconditional pardon to Rene Lima-Marin, the Aurora man who has faced deportation to Cuba since being freed from prison earlier this week in a spectacular case that caught the attention of the nation. “We were convinced this was the right…
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Lawmakers ask Hickenlooper to grant pardon to freed convict facing deportation to Cuba
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is asking Gov. John Hickenlooper to issue a pardon to clear the record of an Aurora man who was released from prison this week only to face deportation to Cuba, a country he hasn’t seen since he was an infant. If Hickenlooper grants the request, it would be the first…