Overview
- Tina Peters remains in state custody at La Vista Correctional Facility serving nearly nine years for a Mesa County election-system breach.
- Her attorneys asked the Colorado Court of Appeals to recognize President Trump’s Dec. 5 pardon, arguing the court lacks jurisdiction and seeking immediate release.
- The court directed the state attorney general’s office to respond by Jan. 8 and kept oral arguments in Peters’ conviction appeal on the calendar for Jan. 14.
- Peters’ team cites George Washington’s Whiskey Rebellion pardons as precedent, while Colorado officials maintain a president cannot pardon state crimes.
- State prison officials refused a release request based on the pardon, and Peters earlier lost a separate bid for release in federal court.