Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters, who was indicted last year in a breach of her county’s election system, has been sentenced to home detention and community service for a misdemeanor obstruction conviction in a separate case.
judge did not grant the district attorney’s request for a jail sentence," Harvey Steinberg, Peters’ attorney, told NBC News. The sentence was put on hold while Peters appeals it,Peters, a supporter of former President Donald Trump who pushed baseless claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, had faced up to six months in jail after she was convicted last month for obstructing government operations.
Peters was charged with obstruction after she was briefly detained at a cafe in February last year. Investigators from the district attorney’s office showed up to the cafe with a warrant to seize Peters’ iPad, which she is accused of using for an unauthorized recording of a court hearing for Belinda Knisley, her former subordinate at the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder’s Office.
Peters allegedly “actively” resisted officers and that “placed in handcuffs for obstructing officers,” the Grand Junction Police Department alleged in an
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