A Mesa Co. judge quashed the arrest warrant for Tina Peters after she left the state without court permission this week, but imposed more stringent requirements for future out-of-state travel and admonished her and her attorney.
DENVER — and traveling to Las Vegas without permission and on a day she had not even asked to travel in the first place.
Steinberg also blamed not seeing the July 11 order on not being computer literate and said he did not become aware of it until July 13. But Judge Barrett said that court records showed another of Peters' attorneys, Randy Corporon, indeed saw the order at 1:19 p.m. on July 11, more than six hours before Peters got on the plane. Steinberg said Corporon never told him or the other counsel in the case about seeing the order, nor did he tell Peters.
District Attorney Dan Rubinstein told the judge he believes Peters is now even more of a flight risk now that she has lost her primary election. He also said she has"repeatedly" confessed to criminal conduct in her speeches and that"the chance of conviction has gone way up." "It will not happen again. It will not happen again," Barrett said."You leave one minute before the time you're telling me you're going to leave, that is a violation of your bond."
Peters’ counsel had filed a travel notice on July 8 but never asked for her to be allowed to travel on July 12 or 13. On July 11, Rubinstein filed an objection to the notice of travel saying that since Peters lost her primary election and is no longer a candidate for office, she should be treated “like all other criminal defendants on bond” and file a motion asking her bond terms be modified.
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