Tina Peters

Tina Peters was improperly sentenced in 2024 and should receive a new sentencing hearing, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday.

The letter warned that clemency would be a gift to conspiracy theorists and risks undermining the safety of future elections.

The Colorado Sun asked every Democrat in the legislature Wednesday whether Polis should offer Peters clemency after the governor all but said on social media Tuesday that he plans to do so.

Colorado's Democratic governor is signaling his openness to granting clemency to a former county clerk who was convicted in a scheme attempting to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Gov. Jared Polis has faced a pressure campaign from President Donald Trump, who continues to repeat his false claims that the election was stolen from him.

In recent years, the governor has shortened sentences he saw as too severe.

Peters’ questions about the 2020 election have since yielded the focus of the White House and a flood of questions for Colorado’s governor.

Ask a Colorado Democrat in Washington, D.C. about why President Donald Trump and his administration seem to be singling out the state, and you get a variation on a theme: political punishment.

Peters appears in a video to grab another inmate by the neck and shove her. No injuries were reported and an investigation is underway.

The Trump administration has been at odds with Colorado.

The three-judge panel was dismissive of many of the arguments made by Peters’ attorneys. But they grilled the state’s lawyer over the trial judge reciting Peters’ false statements about elections in handing down her sentence.