Last month, the Colorado Court of Appeals heard the appeal of 70-year-old former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. Peters is serving over 9 years following her August 2024 conviction at La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo, Colorado. Peters was condemned to this medium-security prison, despite Peters’ being a non-violent, first-time offender.

On Wednesday, Peters was denied bond by the very same court. In Colorado, a defendant has 49 days to seek review of a decision denying bond from a district court. Peters’ bond appeal came “more than fifteen months after the district court issued the order,” the ruling states.

The appellate court has not yet ruled on the merits of Peters’ arguments, but rather only on the bond issue thus far.

According to her counsel’s arguments last month,Peters is being held among “murderers, child molesters, and drug dealers” in Colorado prison because Colorado only has four minimum security facilities and all four are exclusively for men.

“You havea 70-year-old woman, non-violent, first offense, probation eligible, never had a traffic ticket before this, given 9 years in the penitentiary.Under DOC regulations, she ought to be in a minimum security facility with similar defendants,” Peters’ attorney argued during the appeals hearing.

This seems like an Equal Protection violation and/or an Eighth Amendment violation by keeping a non-violent senior citizen and Gold Star mother whose son died in service to this country as an elite Navy SEAL incarcerated with violent offenders while herself being convicted of deceiving a public servant.

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The appellate court also denied Peters’ request to have a new district court judge reassigned in the bond matter after Peters’ counsel argued that Judge Matthew Barrett violated her First Amendment rights.

Peters was not charged with any election violations or any charges involving the voting systems in her possession, despite misconceptions among the public.

During the mid-January Colorado Court of Appeals hearing, the three-judge panel scrutinized the handling of Peters’ case. Senior Assistant Attorney General Lisa Michaels represented the State of Colorado during the proceeding.

Source: The Gateway Pundit