John Case

She was acquitted of three.

And we had no chance to present evidence about why Tina did what she did.

So why she did what she did is she knew that the secretary of state was going to erase the digital election records that she as county clerk was obligated to preserve by federal law.

And once she knew that, she made arrangements with a qualified

OSBT, Curt Brown, Cybersecurity consultant to make an image of the mason county election management server hard drive so those records were would be preserved the image that she made was legal, the gentleman who did it was authorized to enter the room.

OSBT, Curt Brown, Tina had the legal authority to authorize that gentleman to do the work that he did.

And the cameras were turned off to protect the identity of that person who had requested that his identity not be revealed because he was being hunted by the cartels for his work for the FBI in a child trafficking internet operation.

So Tina honored his request that his identity be kept secret.

The cameras were turned off, but that was legal.

The cameras were not required to be turned on.

And the convictions occurred because his identity was misrepresented as Gerald Wood instead of his real name, Conan Hayes.

Gerald Wood voluntarily agreed to let this gentleman use his county key card to get into the room.

And identify himself as Gerald Wood.

Gerald Wood agreed to that in advance.

So there was no identity theft.

There was no conspiracy to seal identity.

John, why did the judge not allow...

you guys to make that case.

What, and is that the basis, one of the basis for your appeal?

I mean, it's kind of shocking that these fundamental things of her intent and what she was seeing, uh, was not allowed in.