Tina Peters will receive a new sentence.

The Colorado Court of Appeals, in a 78-page ruling, upheld Peters' conviction but agreed with her argument that her election tampering sentence would have been lesser had it not been for public comments she made.

“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 ruling said. “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.”

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Reporting by Bente Birkeland, CPR News
Photo by Hart Van Denburg, CPR News