The Colorado Attorney General’s office has formally responded to claims from former Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters that the state court is trying to keep her from speaking out on election security, in violation of her First Amendment rights, and has unjustly denied her bond while she appeals her conviction on charges related to handling election equipment.
Peters is currently incarcerated at the La Vista Correctional Facility, a medium-security facility for women located in Pueblo. In 2024, a state judge in Grand Junction sentenced Peters to nine years in prison when she was found guilty of several felony charges stemming from her efforts to help a man gain unauthorized access to Mesa County’s Dominion voting machines in 2021.
Peters has filed a federal habeas corpus petition and argues that the judge who oversaw the case, Matthew Barrett, denied her bail to silence her, violating her constitutionally protected right to free speech.
“We have a person in prison because of a fear that she's a danger to society because of what she might say,” said Peters’ attorney Peter Ticktin during an earlier hearing on the case. Ticktin is a constitutional lawyer based in Florida who helped lobby for pardons for participants in the Jan. 6 attack, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.
In a legal filing this week, Colorado’s Attorney General Phil Weiser said the state court denied bail for Peters because the court found she was a flight risk and a danger to the...
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