ENGLEWOOD, Colorado. – Denver Broncos attorney Von Miller will not face criminal charges following an investigation by the Parker, Colorado police department earlier this year, according to the District 18 District Attorney’s Office.
The office declined to file charges “according to our review of the information that is currently available,” according to a statement Friday.
The district attorney’s office said the case did not meet the standards of probable cause of admissible evidence “to support a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the decision to charge is in the interests of justice.”
The office said it would not comment further on an investigation “in which there was never any appointment, arrest or filing.”
Police in Parker, a suburb southeast of Denver, had acknowledged that Miller was under investigation. Miller has not made public comments on any part of the investigation or responded to requests for comment.
Neither police nor the district attorney have said what the investigation was for or what charges Miller might have faced.
On Thursday, Broncos general manager George Paton said the team wanted Miller back in the 2021 season (Miller has a one-year option on the contract the team must hire), but added that he wanted that the “legal process” be developed.
“Viouslybviament is a serious situation, but we want to let it develop before we comment on it,” Paton said.
If the Broncos took Miller’s option before the start of the league’s new year, they would secure $ 7 million of the base salary of $ 17.5 million and contract the last year of a six-year, 114-year deal. $ 5 million signed in 2016.
Asked Thursday if Miller’s return could depend on the pay cut even after the legal process was over, Paton said the team “was still working.”
“We want to get Von back … I don’t want to get into everything, but we want him back,” he said. “Obviously the legal process, the one he’s going through, is a serious situation, obviously, and I don’t know all the details, but I respect what’s going on. We want Von to come back.”
Miller, eight times selected for the Pro Bowl and 50 MVP of the Super Bowl, missed the 2020 season after an ankle injury, just days before the opening. At the time, coach Vic Fangio said he hoped Miller had “a hell of a year.”
Miller had eight sacks in 2019, his lowest total since 2013, when he finished with five after serving a six-game suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy and after suffering a broken ACL in December.
He is the longest-serving player in the Broncos and the first draft of John Elway as the team’s top football executive. Elway stepped down as general manager earlier this year before Paton was hired in January.