Since Alonzo Payne took office as DA in the San Luis Valley, roughly a dozen victims’ rights complaints have been filed against him. Now, he faces an investigation from the Colorado attorney general and a recall election funded by the City of Alamosa.
ALAMOSA, Colo. — The man who shot Danny Pruitt during a Black Lives Matter rally in Alamosa saw his attempted murder charge pleaded down to tampering with a corpse.“For a little while, I thought the district attorney was trying to call me a dead person,” Pruitt said.
“This has gotten extremely serious,” Anderson said. “It’s putting the community at risk when you’re not holding people accountable.” It’s complaints like these that led the city to take the unprecedented action of using taxpayer money to fund a recall against the district attorney. The city’s website also has a tab on its homepage devoted to issues with Payne.
Payne also says he has limited resources, which has led to delays in prosecuting cases or pleading down ones his office can’t get to.“He has similar staffing as to what previous district attorneys had,” she said. “We don’t need to be over the top on crime,” she said. “We need to have consequences and right now, there’s nearly zero consequences.”While Pruitt had just three days' notice of a potential plea deal for the man who shot him, Lani Welch said she was told only an hour before a court hearing that her assailant would be offered a plea. She was so distraught in court that the hearing had to be continued.
Payne took some accountability for violating the rights of victims and attributed the issue to staffing numbers.
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