Tag: Tina Peters Pardon
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Polis grants a lawyerly clemency to Peters | Jimmy Sengenberger
On Friday, Gov. Jared Polis issued 35 pardons and nine commutations. Among those was Brandin Kreuzer, who was convicted in 2010 for irreparably injuring a Douglas County deputy at the end of a crime spree involving burglaries, armed robberies, and car thefts. Polis granted Kreuzer parole 35 years early on National Peace Officer Memorial Day — showing, as Sheriff…
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis grants clemency to Tina Peters, makes her eligible for release from prison
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday granted clemency to Tina Peters and made the former Republican county clerk eligible for release from state prison as soon as early June, capping months of speculation that the Democratic governor would shorten a nearly nine-year sentence related to Peters’ role in a scheme to breach secure voting equipment.…
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The governor and the inmate: Trying to make sense of Polis and Peters | Eric Sondermann
Amidst the excess of news and outrage competing for our attention, much time and oxygen have been expended in trying to make sense of Jared Polis’s angst-ridden consideration of a sentence reduction for Tina Peters, former county clerk and now an ungrateful guest of the Colorado prison system. For any just emerging from some deep…