On August 12, 2024, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was convicted on 7 of 10 charges, including four felonies, for tampering with election equipment, the information she had presented at the 2021 Cyber Symposium (Tina Peters at Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium – Day 2).
A jury of 12 from conservative Mesa County found her guilty and the judge sentenced her to 9 years on October 3, 2024.
This article by a Colorado newspaper conveys that everyone they spoke with, from the prosecutor to the association of clerks, is pleased with the trial results. But in a blatant lack of journalism, no counter arguments or positions are included in the article.
Critics like Patrick Colbeck have argued the trial was unfair, citing excluded exculpatory evidence and expert witnesses. The sentence was purposefully harsh, harsher than most in similar cases, as Judge Barrett’s statements about the sentence he handed down can only be interpreted as meaning to intimidate election advocates across the country.
