DA denies extravagant time off charges

By Randy Wyrick

EAGLE — District Attorney Bruce Brown says he took 26 days off last year, not the six and a half weeks asserted by a Front Range newspaper.Brown took issue with a Denver Post story, and said he has taken 68 days off in the 39 months since January 2013 when he was sworn in as the Fifth Judicial District Attorney.“As the DA, when the whistle blows at 5 o’clock, the criminals don’t consider that their time off, so it’s not time off for me either,” Brown said. “How do you quantify what it means to be off? Whether I want …

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