tina peters
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SCOTUS decides Colorado case, state’s newest justice authors first opinion | COURT CRAWL
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Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The nation’s highest court decided a First Amendment case out of Colorado, plus the state’s newest justice issued her first opinion since joining the Colorado Supreme Court last month. Heard on appeal • The state Supreme Court decided that news organizations…
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Colorado appeals court orders new sentencing for Tina Peters, upholds convictions
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Colorado’s second-highest court determined on Thursday that a trial judge improperly sentenced former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters based upon her exercise of protected speech, while at the same time upholding her convictions. The three-judge Court of Appeals panel also concluded that President Donald Trump’s attempted pardon of Peters for state-level convictions last year was…
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Federal judge formalizes injunction blocking USDA’s ‘pilot project’ for Colorado food assistance
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A federal judge formalized his order on Monday to prevent the U.S. Department of Agriculture from requiring Colorado to participate in a food assistance “pilot project,” finding that it violates the law, the U.S. Constitution, and “the bounds of reasoned decision-making.” After a hearing in late January, U.S. District Court Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson…
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ignites fierce debate after raising clemency questions in Tina Peters case
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Gov. Jared Polis ignited a political firestorm Tuesday night after weighing in on the prison sentences of two former Colorado officials — a Democrat and a Republican — convicted of attempting to influence a public servant. The comments quickly fueled speculation about possible clemency for former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and drew sharp pushback…
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The governor and the inmate: Trying to make sense of Polis and Peters | Eric Sondermann
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Amidst the excess of news and outrage competing for our attention, much time and oxygen have been expended in trying to make sense of Jared Polis’s angst-ridden consideration of a sentence reduction for Tina Peters, former county clerk and now an ungrateful guest of the Colorado prison system. For any just emerging from some deep…
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Tina Peters involved in prison altercation caught on video
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Tina Peters appears to have been involved in a prison altercation on Sunday with another inmate and the incident was caught on video. The incident happened at the La Vista Correctional Facility where Peters is serving a roughly nine-year prison sentence for a mixture of felony and misdemeanor convictions related to a security breach of…
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State Supreme Court holds oral arguments, 10th Circuit revives dormant initiative | COURT CRAWL
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Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in multiple civil and criminal cases, plus the Denver-based federal appeals court is doing something unusual for its own round of arguments this week. At the Supreme Court • In a rare…
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Is a pardon for Tina Peters coming? Colorado governor confirms he is weighing options
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Gov. Jared Polis on Friday strongly indicated he is considering clemency for Tina Peters, the former county clerk convicted of a security breach at her election office. When pressed about the matter, Polis didn’t offer an explicit answer, but he confirmed that he will be reviewing the applications from a batch of prisoners, and Peters…
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In Tina Peters appeal, judges telegraph some degree of reversal | ANALYSIS
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Former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters seems poised to walk away from the state’s Court of Appeals with her criminal convictions largely intact, even as a three-judge appellate panel raised concerns about her sentence and one specific conviction. Peters, a Republican who served one term following her 2018 election, is serving a roughly nine-year prison…
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Tina Peters will ask appeals court to overturn her conviction today: Here’s what you need to know.
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Lawyers for former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters will try to convince a state appeals court on Wednesday afternoon to overturn her conviction in a case involving a security breach at the election office she ran. Mesa County jurors convicted Peters last year for her role in a security breach of her office’s voting equipment when she…
