Here is the last 22 minutes of today’s sentencing hearing in which Judge Barrett gives Tina a stern talk how and why he arrived at the sentence he chose, and in which she finds out she is sentenced to 9 years of incarceration (6 months in the Mesa County Detention Facility to be served first, and then 8 1/2 more years in the Department of Corrections) plus 3 years of parole after she completes her sentence.
Nine years for a 70 year old with no significant criminal record is insanely harsh for a non-violent offense.
The judge’s over-emotional speech may result in a sentence reduction upon appeal. Contrary to what he said, she’s obviously mentally ill – I could pick out a few things in the DSM she’d fit into. The loss of her son may have been a contributing cause to her delusions. The judge’s dismissal of these factors was an error.
Peters intentionally violated our CO voting system mandating all new voting machines and the expense of constant litigation from her, while destroying the faith in our CO “gold standard” voting system, inspiring death threats against our SOS and intimidation of our election workers. Forgotten is that she also helped boebert win by “losing boxes of ballots” that were not found until it was too late for them to be counted and applicable – helping her friend boebert and nullifying many Coloradans votes. The judge is right – she would do it again if allowed to. She’s already appealing it and will access some trump PAC to help pay for it.
Tina could have petitioned a judge to let her count those 574 lost ballots and include them in the record of official election results. She initially told the public she was going to count them and notify all of the voters whose ballots were found too late that theirs were among the lost ballots, but she never did either. Instead, she just declared that the lost ballots wouldn’t have made a difference in the outcome of the election anyway, and never counted them or included them in the total results. This makes her the only elected clerk in Colorado to ever knowingly refuse to count hundreds of legitimately-cast ballots. Afterwards, she went on into making a living as a celebrity promoter of “election integrity.”
Onward Christian Soldier, may she now find that hell is a cell and prayer is of little comfort. And I will sleep well every night henceforth knowing that deranged lunatic is there, having earned exactly what she deserved. No more trips to Hawaii, podcasts wailing about unfair prosecution, pimping endless lies, assailing democracy, or whinging about nonexistent election fraud. So let’s all turn the page on this whole debacle and leave her to rot…as no more the “whistleblower” our resident delusional troll insanely claims, than Judas Iscariot was a faithful Apostle. Besides, I’m sure Trump has already forget her name and abandoned yet another bad faith acolyte. But it’s sure starting to seem like justice, albeit slow, neither forgives nor forgives the brazenly foolish of sinners.
Tina Peters is a whistleblower and I can’t remember any whistleblower who has done well during his lifetime except for the charming Colonel Vindman. No one who had any power
had her back and the district attorney carefully crafted his charges such that Peters couldn’t tell the jury why she did what she did. Nor could she bring in forensic experts without Shapiro shouting objections.
Judge Barrett is a reprehensible partisan hack. In his 14 minute diatribe he looked like he was auditioning for the role as the “outraged judge” in some hollywood movie about a mob boss trial. Then he berated her for maintaining her innocence and not slobbering on her knees for forgiveness. I hope some of what he said today can be used in her appeal.
Cody Davis cried about all the expense when it was Griswold who shut down the extant Dominion machines and Mesa County had to replace them and sign a six year contract.
Did any of those commissioners have the balls to ask “why?” No, they didn’t want to make a fuss or get called election deniers.
At least one juror said that had she known it was Peters’ job to maintain the election records, she wouldn’t have voted guilty.
I’m not saying Peters is perfect but she didn’t deserve nine years.
Badhatharry: Your precious child of God, Ms. Peter’s, cost our county 1.4 million dollars. She couldn’t produce one valid shred of evidence, not one. So go cry and whine somewhere else.
Peters deserved life behind bars for the treasonous denial of the election results and her criminal behavior in trying to overturn the election. Far to many of these entitled Republicans need a few years behind bars to adjust their attitude about being an American citizen.
That jurist is an indictment of the jury system, too many juries are picked from low education and low information voters.
Bad Hat,
According to the law, she does deserve 9 years. Go visit her in prison.
“Peters is a whistleblower”?
No, a whistleblower has accurate information not delusions of their own grandeur.
“Nor could she bring in forensic experts”
You mean like a washed up surfer turned wannabe forensic computer expert? You are diluted.
“Nobody with any power had her back?” Mike Lindell donated over $800,000 to her legal defense, provided her private jet rides, a national video platform and a security detail. Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock donated $1 million towards her defense. She was a darling of Trump and was feted at Mar A Lago.
The charges in her case pertained to the laws she violated and thus the evidence had to pertain directly to those legal violations and not to promoting lies about election fraud. Those are the rules of evidence for any trial.
That Judge really said it all so well.
You could substitute Trump for Peters and all the judge’s remarks would still apply.
Wouldn’t it be great if Judge Barrett would be the one to hear DJT’s cases when they finally come to trial. Although I do have faith in Judge Chutkan to apply the rule of law. She, like Judge Barrett, also appears to believe that no one is above the law!
Put her so far back in the cell they gotta pipe her the food.
Our “legal” system usually allows big-dollar representation to buy freedom. Today we see that the facts, plus a strong prosecution, and a fair judge have achieved justice.
Judge Matthew Barrett’s pronouncement was amazing, brilliant, I hope it’s picked up by ever national media.
Good.
Equivocate that, Bad Hat. He wasn’t talking to her. He was talking to all of us. May God have mercy on you and her. So much for the mistrial.
It has been a long time coming to get to this day. Mesa County residents and everyone else who was wronged by Ms. Peters finally has a sense of justice. I can’t help but think that if Ms. Peters had even a modicum of acceptance and remorse for her role in not performing her elected duties, she would not be receiving a 9 year sentence. Ms. Peters continually lied and distorted the truth. She followed others down a rabbit hole instead of doing the job. She’s in YouTune videos with Sherronna Bishop and Bobbie Daniel who both misled her. She was really taken by the creepy pillow guy. Mesa County has hopefully learned some hard lessons to have some restraint when it comes to voting for those best suited for the position and refrain from voting for extremism.
Hallelujah! Finally some justice for that whack job who cost the county a million dollars.
I’m glad she’s been sentenced to 9 years, but disappointed as to why “America’s Nazi Mom”, Sherronna Bishop isn’t going to jail as well
100% agree!
Agreed. Given all that went down, you would think that a conspiracy charge would be fairly easy to prove.
I still harbor hope that Bishop will be prosecuted, but it appears she was a master manipulator who was careful not to leave tracks. I would love to see her in handcuffs and she also would look good in orange.