Jared Polis: “Clearly her free speech, however much we disagree with it…”

“Nearly every case we saw probation, we saw six months. Peters sentence, he says, was based too much on what she said, not what she did. The appellate court raised the same concern. Clearly her free speech, however much we disagree with it, was used as a factor in that sentencing. Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubenstein disagrees. This was not just a one act. This was a months long pattern of deception to try to violate every security protocol we had as the person we entrusted specifically for that.” (01:39–01:46)

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