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GRAND JUNCTION (AP) — A former Colorado county clerk and one-time hero to election conspiracists was sentenced Thursday for leading a data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that ...
Republican Secretary of State candidate for Colorado, Tina Peters, a county clerk and election denier who's been indicted on criminal charges for tampering with voting machines, attends her ...
A former Colorado county clerk convicted of illegally tampering with voting machines was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday after repeating Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud ...
Jury nullification sometimes takes the form of a jury convicting the defendant of lesser charges than the prosecutor sought. [13] In the 21st century, many discussions of jury nullification center around drug laws that many consider unjust either in principle or because they disproportionately affect members of certain groups.
Jury nullification may also occur in civil suits, in which the verdict is generally a finding of liability or lack of liability (rather than a finding of guilty or not guilty). [22] The main ethical issue involved in jury nullification is the tension between democratic self-government and integrity. [23]
Colorado court administrators are investigating threats against a district court judge and its staff after a former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters was sentenced this week in an election case.
The former West Virginia Governor, William Wallace Barron was convicted of jury tampering in 1971. [10] George Pape, a jury foreman in a 1987 trial of John Gotti, sought out Gotti's underlings, who agreed to pay him $75,000 in exchange for a not guilty vote. Pape was later convicted of jury tampering and sentenced to three years imprisonment. [11]
Tina Peters, Mesa County Clerk and Colorado Republican candidate for secretary of state (center), follows election results with supporters during a primary night watch party at the Wide Open ...