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2022年3月9日，美国科罗拉多州大章克申，因选举安全违规面临多项重罪指控的科罗拉多州梅萨县前书记员蒂娜·彼得斯的监狱入档照。梅萨县警长办公室/法新社 via 路透社/资料图
（路透社4月2日电）——科罗拉多州上诉法院周四推翻了对蒂娜·彼得斯的九年监禁判决，但维持了对她的定罪。这位前县书记员因篡改投票机设备被定罪，她当时一直在宣称2020年总统大选遭窃取，这一说法正是唐纳德·特朗普多次虚假鼓吹的论调。
特朗普近期一直在为同为共和党人的彼得斯奔走呼号，向州法院和科罗拉多州州长、民主党人贾里德·波利斯施压，要求释放彼得斯，称她是政治犯。波利斯上月暗示，他可能会考虑对彼得斯予以赦免。
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由三名法官组成的上诉法院合议庭下令下级法院对彼得斯重新量刑，彼得斯目前仍在狱中。合议庭维持了对她全部七项罪名的定罪，其中包括试图影响公职人员和渎职等。
在裁决书中，合议庭表示，下级法院法官马修·巴雷特不当基于彼得斯受保护的言论——即她在2024年庭审期间始终坚持的选举欺诈主张——对其量刑。合议庭援引了巴雷特在庭审期间的多处发言，包括称彼得斯是“骗子”，一直在兜售“一次次被证明是垃圾的蛇油”。
“初审法院就彼得斯对2020年选举欺诈存在性的信念所发表的言论，超出了对其量刑的相关考量范畴。她的罪行并非其对选举欺诈存在的信念——无论初审法院认为这一信念多么错误，而是她为收集所谓欺诈证据而采取的欺骗性行动，”合议庭写道。
合议庭并未暗示彼得斯应被判处何种刑罚。
彼得斯于2022年被起诉，此前她所在办公室发生选举安全违规事件，导致投票设备密码被发布在一个右翼博客上。她否认有任何不当行为。
彼得斯的两名律师彼得·蒂金和约翰·凯斯未立即回应置评请求。
特朗普去年12月赦免了彼得斯，此举被认为具有象征意义，因为彼得斯并未被联邦羁押。科罗拉多州上诉法院合议庭在裁决书中写道，总统的联邦赦免权并不适用于州级犯罪。
布拉德·布鲁克斯在科罗拉多州报道；唐娜·布赖森和克里斯·里斯编辑
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Appeals panel orders resentencing of ex‑Colorado clerk over voting machines
2026-04-02 21:04:46 UTC / Reuters
By Brad Brooks
April 2, 2026 9:04 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
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Tina Peters, the Mesa County, Colorado, clerk indicted on multiple felony counts stemming from an election security breach, poses in a jail booking photograph in Grand Junction, Colorado, U.S. March 9, 2022. Mesa County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
April 2 (Reuters) – A Colorado appeals court on Thursday overturned the nine-year prison sentence, but not the conviction, given to Tina Peters, a former county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines in her pursuit of claims the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump, as Trump repeatedly and falsely claimed.
Trump has taken up the case of Peters, a fellow Republican, in recent months and put pressure on state courts and Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, to free her, saying she is a political prisoner. Polis last month signaled he may be willing to consider clemency for Peters.
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A three-judge appeals court panel ordered a lower court to resentence Peters, who remains jailed. The panel upheld her conviction on all seven counts, which include attempts to influence a public servant and violation of duty, among others.
In its ruling, the panel said the lower court judge Matthew Barrett improperly punished Peters based on her protected speech – her claims of election fraud, which she maintained throughout her 2024 trial. The panel cited several things Barrett said at trial, including calling Peters a “charlatan” who continued to peddle “snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again.”
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“The trial court’s comments about Peters’s belief in the existence of 2020 election fraud went beyond relevant considerations for her sentencing. 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,” the panel wrote.
The panel gave no suggestion of what Peters’ sentence should be.
Peters was indicted in 2022 following an election security breach at her office that led to voting equipment passwords being posted on a right-wing blog. She denied wrongdoing.
Two attorneys for Peters, Peter Ticktin and John Case, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Trump pardoned Peters in December in a move that was considered symbolic since Peters is not in federal custody. The Colorado appeals court panel, in its ruling, wrote that a president’s federal pardon powers do not reach state offenses.
Reporting by Brad Brooks in Colorado; editing by Donna Bryson and Chris Reese
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