The district attorney who prosecuted Tina Peters urged Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday to reject the Trump administration’s effort to transfer the former Mesa County clerk into federal custody, where, he warned, she may be illegally released.

“Put simply, Ms. Peters is in prison today due to the crimes she committed that put Mesa’s election systems at risk and violated the public’s trust, and for no other reason,” Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein and Attorney General Phil Weiser told Polis in a joint letter that also called the transfer request “a transparent attempt to bypass the president’s inability to pardon Ms. Peters or commute her sentence.”

The letter comes a week after the federal Bureau of Prisons asked the state Department of Corrections to transfer Peters into fede

See Full Page