Controversial Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters bonded out of the Mesa County jail Thursday night after posting a $25,000 bond.
bonded out of the Mesa County Jail Thursday night after posting a $25,000 bond. It followed a video appearance in court from the jail, where she spent Wednesday night after turning herself in to face 10 charges.known as a “trusted build.”
The indictment says Peters and her assistant Belinda Knisley are accused of “A deceptive scheme which was designed to influence public servants, breach security protocols, exceed permissible access to voting equipment and set in motion the eventual distribution of confidential information to unauthorized people.”
“An old saying goes judge that you could indict a ham sandwich,” said defense attorney Jason Jovanovich, borrowing a phrase made popular in the Tom Wolfe book, Bonfire of the Vanities. “At worst she’s accused of doing her job that she is constitutionally and statutorily supposed to do.” Judge Matthew Barrett told the court, “I note that the allegations, in this case, are very serious… And are alleged to have been acts that undermined the democratic process.”
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