After the pardon: The constitutional question Colorado courts now face
By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice
President Donald Trump’s pardon of Tina Peters did not end her case. It changed it.
What now sits before Colorado’s courts is no longer a question of guilt or innocence, nor even whether Peters should remain imprisoned while her appeal moves forward. The unresolved issue is more fundamental than that: whether the state still has authority to proceed in light of a federal pardon.
It is the question attorney Peter Ticktin says Colorado can no longer set aside.
Federal pardon issued by President Donald Trump for Tina Peters
A pardon that altered the legal landscape
Ticktin, who represents Peters, said in an interview with RMV that the federal pardon fundamentally changed the legal posture of the case.
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