Each case is about an individual, the crime they committed. Holis says he looked at other cases of corruption by public officials in Colorado and none of the sentences, he says, came close to Peters. 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. (01:29–01:33)
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Asserts that in similar cases of corruption by public officials in Colorado, sentences were typically probation or six months.
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