Jared Polis: “Another public official in Colorado convicted of four…”

“What a commutation is is effectively saying, we're going to look at the sentence as a whole. Was it different than other people that committed the same crime? There was, in fact, Another public official in Colorado convicted of four felonies... got zero time in prison. time in prison. She got probation only. Had Tina Peters gotten a year or two years or even three, I don't think anybody would have batted an eye.” (03:11–03:20)

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