A panel on the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled last week that Attorney General Kris Mayes’ prosecution of Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby for delaying canvassing of the 2022 election may proceed.
Crosby, along with Cochise County Supervisor Peggy Judd, was indicted for felonies by a grand jury in November 2023 for briefly delaying the canvassing of the 2022 election to investigate concerns with the voting machine tabulators. Judd accepted a plea agreement two months ago for a misdemeanor charge of failing to perform her duty as an election officer and was sentenced to probation.
State Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa) and Speaker of the House Ben Toma (R-Peoria) filed an Amicus Curiae brief opposing the prosecution last March.
Crosby (pictured above) moved to dismiss the indictment due to legislative immunity. The trial court judge denied the motion, prompting him to file a Special Action with the appeals court in September, asking to dismiss the charges. In it, his attorney, Dennis Wilenchik, denounced the prosecution as “political.”
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