Appeals Court Reverses Sentence for Woman Convicted of Deceiving Election Officials

An appeals court has reversed the sentence of a woman convicted of lying to Colorado state officials about a tech specialist she brought in to observe changes to election software. The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld her conviction and said she is ineligible for a pardon by President Donald Trump. However, it ruled that she was improperly sentenced and sent the case back to state court for resentencing. “Here, the trial court’s comments about Peters’s belief in the existence of 2020 election fraud went beyond relevant considerations for her sentencing,” the court’s April 2 opinion says. “Her offense was not her belief, however misguided the trial court deemed it to be, in the existence of such election fraud; it was her deceitful actions in her attempt to gather evidence of such fraud.”...