Former 12th Judicial District Attorney Robert Willett filed a $5 million federal lawsuit Tuesday against his successor and the district attorney’s office after he was wrongly prosecuted for embezzlement.
Alonzo Payne, former district attorney for the 12th Judicial District
, brought the felony charge against Willett in March 2022, days after Willett publicly called for Payne’s resignation. Willett claims in the lawsuit that the baseless charge was filed “as an act of sheer retaliation” for his public criticism of Payne.as district attorney for the 12th Judicial District in the San Luis Valley in July 2022 after an investigation by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office found he repeatedly violated crime victims’ rights.
Payne had alleged that a $1,500 Christmas bonus that Willett paid himself boosted his salary above the statutory limit of $130,000 for district attorneys’ salaries. Willett contends in the lawsuit that he was paid no more than $126,000 as district attorney, even with the bonus included. When the felony charge was filed, Willett was suspended without pay from his current job as a prosecutor in the 4th Judicial District, the lawsuit says.
“I was out of work for seven months and my name was pretty much sullied and drug through the mud,” he said in a brief conversation about the lawsuit Wednesday.
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