CO GOP Leader Visits Grand Junction to Support Conspiracist Clerk at Her Trial

Trial is back on schedule after the defense rested.  Closing arguments and jury instructions expected for Monday.

the Defense case wound up without much substance.  According to the Colorado Sun, the 4 attorneys working for Peters came up with

• "Several cyber security experts testified briefly about blurred passwords "
• "The defense called a fellow former Colorado clerk, Dallas Schroeder, to testify. But Schroeder, who is now an Elbert County commissioner, was asked only three brief questions before the defense ended his testimony "
• "another hoped-for Peters’ witnesses — an election denier named David Clements — was not allowed to take the stand"
• The defense’s star witness, Sherronna Bishop, … I'm thinking there may have been a bit of a problem:  "Bishop’s memory of the details of the election deniers’ actions three years ago was sharp under defense questioning. She repeatedly answered, “I don’t recall” under questioning from the prosecution."

Missing … Tina Peters, her own self:

On the eighth day of her trial, Peters had dangled the possibility she would testify, but only if the judge agreed to put guardrails on the questions she might be asked.

“I don’t want prosecutors to come in and bully me around like I have seen them do to others,” Peters told Barrett while the jury was out of the courtroom.

Barrett told Peters several times that he could not give legal advice to a defendant about whether she should testify, or not.