Posted on 04/02/2026 9:16:15 AM PDT by CFW
The Colorado Court of Appeals has thrown out election denier Tina Peters' nine-year prison sentence, finding that the lower court violated her First Amendment right to free speech related to her allegations of election fraud.
“The trial court’s comments about Peters’s belief in the existence of 2020 election fraud went beyond relevant considerations for her sentencing,” a three-judge panel wrote in a 77-page opinion. “Her offense was not her belief, however misguided the trial court deemed it to be, in the existence of such election fraud; it was her deceitful actions in her attempt to gather evidence of such fraud. Indeed, under these circumstances, just as her purported beliefs underlying her motive for her actions were not relevant to her defense, the trial court should not have considered those beliefs relevant when imposing sentence.”
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Anyway, good news!
“The judges wrote that it was “apparent” the lower court imposed the sentence it did because Tina Peters continued to espouse election denying views.
“The tenor of the court’s comments makes clear that it felt the sentence length was necessary, at least in part, to prevent her from continuing to espouse views the court deemed ‘damaging.’
“But the court failed to acknowledge that Peters is no longer the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder,” they continued. “She is no longer in a position to engage in the conduct that led to her conviction. So it cannot be said that the lengthy prison sentence was for specific deterrence. To the contrary, the sentence punished Peters for her persistence in espousing her beliefs regarding the integrity of the 2020 election.””
They win. Look at the money it cost her.
She should be compensated for what was done to her.
Sue their butts off
The devil could not have scripted a more twisted judgment.
I pray Tina is released post haste.
SHE WAS TRYING TO SAVE THE PROOF.
She’s not an ‘election denier’ if she can prove it.
Trying to prevent the criminals from destroying the proof of election fraud SHOULD NOT BE A CRIME.
Good News for Tina. She has suffered.
Great news and very surprising from a CO state court!
BUT, the dark cloud is in the last sentence: “The state appeals court is asking the trial court to resentence Peters.”
Of course they are.
Is “resentencing” an end-run around double-jeopardy? Wouldn’t they have to re-try her for the same crime rather than just say “Oopsie, we were too harsh on your sentence. We’ll give you a little bit lighter sentence. How does 7 year sound?”
Fantastic and as it should be. I’m waiting for the local loons to break out their wheelchairs, canes and oxygen tanks for another protest.
Are they cutting her loose today??
“Are they cutting her loose today??”
Not today, not anytime soon, and probably not ever.
It would be an epic surprise if some Kolorado Kangaroo Kourt ever did the right thing (as opposed to the “left thing”). Once Democrats have full control of the government again, there will many more like Tina Peters.
If her situation doesn’t make a sane person’s blood boil, then not much will.
Of course they do, because they are dishonest. She had the evidence, and that is why they arrested her, and gave her a 9 year sentence. They expected her to die in prison.
So it looks like the sentence was overturned, not the conviction? If so they win as she has been in some black hole since.
Are they cutting her loose today??
I’m looking for that information. Prison officials will probably slow walk the paperwork to delay as long as possible. She is in poor health from what I understand and they allow other prisoners to treat her badly so I hope her attorneys push for a quick release.
Hopefully the new sentence will be covered by time served and she can be released ASAP!
So glad this turned out well! I’ve been praying.
“”“Ms. Peters is in prison because of her own criminal conduct to prove false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 elections, and she has not shown any remorse for her actions,” Weiser said.
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The problem with that BS is that it was not a ‘false claim’ of voter fraud and Peters was trying to preserve that evidence. For that, the leftists engaged in the fraud had to make an example of her.
“”“Whatever happens with her sentence, Tina Peters will always be a convicted felon who violated her duty as Mesa County clerk, put other lives at risk, and threatened our democracy,” he said. “Nothing will remove that stain.”””
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Oh look... the leftists favorite phrase used there... ie “threatens our democracy”. Sublime irony considering that they are the only thing that has threatened America, as founded, for decades.
And “the stain” of the leftist criminals (I call them Democrats) that committed the fraud and then covered it up by imprisoning Peters will last eternally up to and past their reckoning on Judgement Day. Deal with that reality, Weiser. Just because you don’t believe in God or that final judgement, doesn’t mean you won’t be getting it.... good & hard.
President Trump should bring her to his next public cabinet meeting and advise her to sue the State of Colorado for running a gulag to shut up the opposition.
The appeals court threw out her sentence of 9 years because the judge violated the 1st Amendment.
Does anyone know if the State of Colorado is now at risk for her imprisonment? It was essentially illegal imprisonment based upon a judge violating the Constitution.
My obvious next question is why does the State of Colorado have so many judges and lawmakers who don’t care about the 1st Amendment. They have lost two cases this week to denying 1st Amendment rights.
They realize things are heating up for them.
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