Douglas Bruce, the author of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, is due in court Monday on in a 2012 felony tax evasion conviction.
State prosecutors allege he violated six terms of his probation, including failing to timely report a law enforcement contact, not returning a financial disclosure form and not properly disclosing financial obligations and funds.
Bruce, a former legislator, also is accused of failing to provide copies of his income tax records for two years.
Monday’s hearing is billed as a litigated probation revocation hearing. Bruce was convicted in 2012 of attempting to influence a public servant, tax evasion and filing a false tax return
Bruce said at an April 10 court hearing in the probation case that he planned to represent himself during the revocation hearing.
Bruce was in Denver after that April hearing, where he was captured on video grabbing a cell phone out of the hands of Dede Laugesen, executive director of Colorado Springs Government Watch.
The confrontation happened as Bruce,a Colorado Springs Republican, left the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse.
Denver’s city attorney’s office because it said there was no likelihood of conviction.
In April, that Bruce is wanted out of an Ohio housing court on a $5,000 bond building code violation arrest warrant, records there show.
The warrant, ordering Bruce’s arrest, was signed by a judge March 19. It was issued after Bruce failed to appear in court for code citations.
Jesse Paul: 303-954-1733, jpaul@denverpost.com or twitter.com/JesseAPaul
