DENVER — Colorado officials are petitioning Democratic Gov. Jared Polis not to transfer convicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to federal custody after facing pressure from the Trump administration to do so, a strategy her supporters have proposed to free her from prison.

This week, two letters addressed to Polis urge that he reject the push by President Donald Trump's administration for Peters' move: one from Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) and Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein (R), and another from the Colorado County Clerks Association. Both letters contend that Peters' transfer would be harmful to the state's judicial integrity.

Peters is behind bars at the Colorado Department of Corrections, serving a nine-year prison sentence that stems from an el

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