As first reported yesterday on 96.5 The Fox and 95.3 KYDN D.A. Alonzo Payne resigned. An investigation by the Colorado Attorney General found that he and his office were guilty of shutting victims out of the legal process in what Attorney General Phil Weiser called an unprecedented matter for his office. Having to enforce the Victims Rights Act has never needed to be done in any prior case.
Faced with greater scrutiny from the AG and the Governor prepared to set a date for a recall vote, D.A. Alonzo Payne chose to resign. In his resignation letter to the Governor, Payne was defiant to the end stating that the recall “overturned the will of the voters” a statement which disregarded the fact that more people signed the recall petition than actually voted for him in the election.
Below are interviews with Lani Welch, the victim who brought the recall campaign against Payne, Alamosa Mayor Ty Coleman and Former DA Bob Willett who is considered the leading candidate to become the DA once again.
