Tina Peters– the previous clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, and her state’s most popular 2020 election denier– was condemned Friday of misdemeanor blockage of a federal government operation, according to Mesa County’s notary.
Peters was acquitted of blocking a peace officer, Mesa County Notary Ann Brigham stated.
Peters was apprehended by Grand Junction authorities in February 2022 at a regional company while state private investigators tried to perform a search warrant. According to an authorities affidavit from the Grand Junction Authorities Department, Peters was not working together with private investigators as they attempted to take an iPad looked for in the search warrant.
Peters actioned in between an officer and a customer who supposedly obstructed private investigators from accessing the table, according to the affidavit. When officers attempted to move her to the side, she “actively” withstood, the affidavit stated.
After hearing 2 days of testament, a six-person jury returned the split decisions on Peters.
The decisions come less than a year after she lost the GOP primary for secretary of state to fomer Jefferson County clerk Pam Anderson– then declared scams, once again without any proof. Peters was among numerous singing election conspiracy theorists to stop working in their quotes for greater workplace in 2022.
Peters and her leading deputy were prosecuted last March following a regional examination into a security breach that had actually led to personal ballot maker logins, and forensic pictures of their hard disks, being released in a QAnon-affiliated Telegram channel in early August 2021.
Peters, who last month revealed her candidateship to end up being chair of the Colorado GOP, still deals with numerous felony counts for her supposed participation in the election security breach in her county workplaces.
Her trial for those charges is set for late August.
Source: CNN.