‘They want me to die here’: Tina Peters floats pardon loophole to Trump for state election conspiracy case, lawyer says she’s been attacked by prisoners as her release is rejected

“I think I’m going to die here,” Peters’ lawyer, Peter Ticktin, recounted her saying during an interview with Law&Crime. “She’s depressed and upset,” Ticktin said. “This is a terrible decision.”

The Florida-based attorney spoke to Peters, whose only “human contact” comes in the form of phone calls between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., on Tuesday morning just one day after Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott Varholak ruled that he must not get involved in overturning her state sentence to allow her release. Peters, as Law&Crime has previously reported, was found guilty of engaging in election equipment tampering and official misconduct by allowing an unauthorized third party to make copies of voting machine hard drives in 2021.

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