In yet another blatant display of political persecution, former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters, 68—a gold star mother—has been sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Last week, President Trump’s close friend and former schoolmate, Peter Ticktin, filed an amicus brief in support of Tina Peters in Colorado.
Ticktin’s brief supports Peters and her position. Here is an introductory paragraph from the brief:
The Defendant Tina Peters has a broad-based appeal pending to the Colorado Court of Appeals but also due to severe health concerns and the injustice of detention has filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition for release from incarceration – and thereby access to necessary medical care – pending her appeal on the main topics. The violation of her civil rights and constitutional rights support habeas relief of release pending the outcome of all appeals…
…Tina Peters has been prosecuted for exposing criminal misconduct of other Colorado officials – whether she intended that at the time or not. The Colorado Attorney General is even guilty of the now famous 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) – obstruction of an official proceeding – as well as attempted destruction of evidence (attempted in Peters’ district, but surely completed in other parts of Colorado)…
…Tina Peters’ “crime” was to preserve a copy of the digital election records prior to the alteration of the software and database. She arranged a qualified expert to oversee the purported software “upgrade” mandated by the Secretary of State that would have erased election records in violation of 52 U.S.C. §20701.