It’s been almost five years since Paul Petersen, the former Maricopa County assessor, was sentenced and imprisoned by the federal government for violating a federal compact. Now that Petersen concludes his federal term, he faces an additional five years in an Arizona prison. This is a result of the judge giving Petersen consecutive sentencing instead of concurrent, which would have allowed him to serve his federal and state sentences at the same time.

But is this truly about justice? The details of Petersen’s case have been obscured by sensational media narratives, portraying him as a greedy attorney who profited from vulnerable children and no shortage of political grandstanding from politicians on the right and left.

The narrative from the media and politicians, however, only tells par

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