Imprisoned QAnon Ex-Clerk Appeals Contempt Ruling

Law & Crime reports:

The first election official convicted of a felony over 2020 election conspiracy theories promulgated by followers of Donald Trump is appealing an earlier contempt of court ruling in a related case. Tina Peters, 68, is the former county clerk of Mesa County, Colorado. In August, she was convicted on seven counts of engaging in a security breach — related to unauthorized access to voting machines.

In October, after a marathon hearing in which the defendant repeatedly expressed defiance and stuck to her theories, she was sentenced to nine years in state prison for those felony offenses. While sitting in the gallery during a February 2022 hearing for one of her alleged co-conspirators, Peters allegedly used an iPad to record some of the proceedings. In May 2023, she was found guilty of contempt for that decidedly lesser charge — and fined $1,500.

Read the full article. In October, it was reported that the judge who sentenced Peters has received death threats.

‘Treat my client as if she were some other poor person’: Tina Peters appeals contempt conviction in iPad recording case related to unauthorized voting machine access prosecution

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