State of Colorado v. Tina Marie Peters

Grand Junction, Colorado, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failing to comply with Colorado's Secretary of

The Defendant was found guilty.

A division of the court of appeals addresses, for the first time
in a published Colorado appellate decision, two significant issues
implicating the interplay of federal authority and state sovereignty
in the federal republic established by the United States
Constitution: (1) whether the President of the United States has the
power to pardon an individual for state law offenses and (2) whether
the doctrine of Supremacy Clause immunity protects an individual
who is not a federal officer or federal agent from state prosecution
for actions taken in service of the federal government. After
resolving both issues against Peters, and addressing her other
appellate contentions, the division affirms her convictions. But the
division reverses her sentence because it was based in part on
improper consideration of her exercise of her right to free speech.
The division remands the case to the trial court for resentencing.