A federal judge has refused to release the former Colorado elections clerk convicted of trying to overturn the 2020 election, despite President Donald Trump calling for her to be freed while she appeals her case.
Tina Peters, a former official from Mesa County, Colorado, was found guilty last year of seven criminal counts—including four felony charges—for letting Trump’s allies illegally access the county’s election system after Trump falsely claimed Joe Biden had “stolen” the election from him.
During a contentious hearing in October 2024, Colorado trial court Judge Matthew Barrett sentenced Peters to nine years in prison, saying she was “as defiant a defendant as this court has ever seen,” and that her “lies” and “corrupt conduct” made her a “danger to the community.”
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