Governor Polis, Please Consider Pardoning Tina Peters

Governor Polis, Please Consider Pardoning Tina Peters

Dear Governor Polis, this request summarizes the sentiments from countless thousands of supporters of Tina Peters.

We greatly admire your ‘Service Before Self’ courage that recently resulted in you standing up for principles which drew notable criticism from your own party. In particular, when you criticized the Hunter Biden Pardon, and also endorsed President Elect Trump’s selection of RFK Jr. you ended up being on the receiving end of harsh reactions from your constituents, as evident on your X account.

While we recognize that the situation of Tina Peters hits a lot closer to home in Colorado than Hunter Biden and RFK Jr., we also recognize that your consideration of a pardon for Tina can greatly relate to the statement you made regarding the Hunter Biden Pardon, and that is: “Nobody Is Above The Law”.

While we won’t delve into the facets and people here that we feel violated many laws in order to incarcerate Tina for political reasons, we’re appealing to you from the “hasn’t she suffered enough?” perspective, especially in light of new evidence of her innocence brought recently.

That new evidence invalidates Tina’s prior conviction of ‘contempt’ which resulted in home incarceration for many months with an ankle bracelet, and severely restricted her ability to travel. Also, while this article about the new evidence states her prior conviction has nothing to do with her current 9 year sentence, it must be recognized that it has a lot to do with her current sentence for the following reasons: During Judge Barrett’s summary after sentencing her, he cited the precedent of that iPad conviction as the basis for her extraordinarily long period of incarceration being justified, because of her ‘demonstrated disregard for the rule of law’ via the contempt charge.

Now that the Appeals Court has spoken, that removes an important leg from the stool of Judge Barrett’s harsh sentencing reasoning. As a result, we’re now in a new circumstance paradigm with what we consider to be ‘The Rule Of Law’. In particular, because her contempt charge was vacated, her 9 year sentence now appears as extremely overbearing and unreasonable. Given this, she now has zero indication of any past conduct that showed any Contempt for the law anywhere.

We also ask you to consider the fact that defendant Peters is an almost 70 year woman without even as much as a parking ticket in her past. Her life has been exemplary, she is a Gold Star Mom who home schooled her Navy SEAL son with principles and values that guided his life until he devastatingly lost it while in service to our country, so we can all enjoy our freedom.  Given all this, Judge Barrett’s reasoning for such a harsh sentence has now appeared to crumble before our eyes. Again, hasn’t Tina Peters suffered enough?

While we all believe that miracles can happen, we also recognize the pressure you must be under to probably not even touch the topic of Tina Peters. We ask that you do however. If it’s just too big a mountain to climb all at once, we ask that in light of the recent Vacating of her contempt charges, you also consider taking a look at the factors which recently went into the denial of her release on bail until her appeal can be heard. Unfortunately the wait time for her appeal from Judge Barrett’s harsh sentencing can be from 2 to 3 years. At this point, it appears that the only reason to keep her in prison awaiting that appeal with bond denied is strictly for political reasons.

Finally, with the upcoming administration taking office on Jan 20, the high profile nature of Tina’s case and its implications will certainly be addressed in short order by the new Justice Department. Given that she was purely motivated to preserve the 29,000 Election Records which were required to be retained for 22 Months federally, the fact remains that they were indeed deleted after the “Trusted Build” just a few months after the 2020 Election by the SOS. This fact is a key nexus for her case to be examined from a federal perspective.

Additionally, during Judge Barrett’s harsh sentencing he labeled Tina as dangerous for speaking out for what she felt were important findings about our elections. While we’re not lawyers, that characterization appears to invalidate her freedom of speech and civil rights in accordance with the Constitution. There are a lot of rabbit holes to go down here, and again, we recognize the pressure you’re surely up against, or you probably would have pardoned her already.

Given that however, we please ask you to consider her circumstance to be a “Stitch In Time Saves Nine” situation, and the “Nine” is that nine year sentence which we feel deserves a fresh look at, especially in light of the pardons you recently approved. If your number of pardons can increase from 26 to 27 with Tina’s name being added, it would not only be a well-deserved gesture regarding her situation, it would also be a giant leap forward for the rule of law. In short, “A Pardon in Time, Saves 9 Years”.

Again, we are not lawyers, however to date, we have not been able to identify one law that she actually broke. The opposite however appears to be that she upheld many laws in accordance with her oath.

The bottom line is that Tina just needs a fair shake with objectivity that considers the new evidence of her charge of contempt being vacated, along with finally recognizing all the evidence she was not allowed to present on her behalf during her trial that the jury never got to hear. We truly believe that if you heard that evidence, your heart would likely soften, as you would understand the true story. While all this evidence was provided to those in authority in Mesa County, none of it was ever fairly considered, so perhaps you can please provide that review and subsequent consideration.

Tina is a gift to our society, and is certainly not anything that resembles the criminal they have made her out to be.

Thank you Governor Polis.

Signed,

The many friends and supporters of Tina Peters