DENVER, Colo. (KOAA) -- Governor Jared Polis is increasingly indicating he's considering some form of clemency for Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted of an election security breach.
Though her name wasn't mentioned during his final State of the State address last week, reporters pressed him on the topic in a briefing after the speech.
Polis said the growing chorus believing he'll issue a pardon or commutation of her sentence isn't overshadowing any of his priorities in his final year of office. He added Tina Peters isn't part of his "proactive messaging."
"I think that her sentence is unusual and harsh with a first time offender, nonviolent offender gets," said the governor. "There were remarks similarly in the courtroom yesterday, and that's something that we weigh along with the other factors."
Polis referenced an appeals court hearing last week where the judges suggested Peters' sentence was perhaps too harsh.
The three judges all expressed concern about District Court Judge Matthew Barrett's statements during Peters' sentencing.
He called her a "charlatan" and said she posed a danger to the community for spreading lies about voting and undermining the...
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