Former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters is asking the state appeals court to recognize Donald Trump’s pardon of her state convictions as valid.
In a motion Tuesday, Peters’ lawyers said the Colorado appeals court no longer has jurisdiction over her case because of a Dec. 5 pardon issued by Trump. They also asked the court to release her from prison because of the pardon.
Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado clerk, was convicted of state crimes there for orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.
Trump’s pardon power does not extend to state crimes.
the colorado courts should absolutely grant her request and officially recognize that she received a federal presidential pardon. and in the same ruling also take notice that the presidential power of the pardon does not apply to any state charged crimes and that she will remain in prison until the colorado governor commutes or pardons her sentence, she receives parole from a parole board, or she serves her sentence in full.