Colorado courtroom directors are investigating threats in opposition to a district courtroom decide and its workers after a former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters was sentenced this week in an election case.
District Court docket Decide Matthew Barrett sentenced Peters to 9 years in jail on Thursday and disparaged her push of discredited claims about rigged voting machines within the 2020 presidential election. After the sentencing, the courtroom workers began receiving each reward and threats, prompting the courthouse so as to add safety.
“We are receiving threats and compliments regarding Judge Barrett’s sentencing of Tina Peters,” Will Sightler, courtroom government for the twenty first Judicial District, instructed The Colorado Solar in a press release.
“We are currently reviewing and taking appropriate action as necessary,” he added.
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Peters was discovered responsible of 4 felonies in August following a felony trial. The prosecutors argued that she stole a safety badge of a county worker to help a person linked to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to achieve entry to the county voting system — all in an effort to assist Lindell’s false conspiracy theories in regards to the 2020 election.
Peters, a one-time hero of election deniers, turned “fixated” on voting issues after meshing with these questioning the validity of the election, in response to prosecutors.
In 2022, Peters misplaced her major in August 2022 to retain her place.
“It’s just more lies,” the decide stated as he critiqued Peters this week. “No objective person believes them. No — at the end of the day, you cared about the jets, the podcasts and people flying with you.”
