disbarment
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Divided Colorado Supreme Court upholds disbarment of ex-DA Linda Stanley
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The Colorado Supreme Court, by 4-2, upheld the rare disbarment of an elected district attorney on Monday, concluding disciplinary officials correctly barred Linda Stanley from practicing law as a result of her inappropriate comments to the media and her improper attempt to remove a judge from a high-profile murder case. Voters of the 11th Judicial…
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Colorado Supreme Court takes extraordinary step in response to disbarred lawyer’s ‘abuse’
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The Colorado Supreme Court took the extraordinary step on Tuesday of slamming the door on Nina H. Kazazian’s ability to continue flooding the legal system with “meritless” filings – conduct the state’s disciplinary authority called “paper terrorism” when it disbarred her last year. In an unsigned opinion that did not originate from any specific court case,…
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Trump-supporting attorney Lin Wood disbarred in Colorado’s federal trial court
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Colorado’s federal trial court on Thursday disbarred an attorney who spoke favorably about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, called for former Vice President Mike Pence to be subjected to firing squads and claimed he had evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The penalty imposed on L. Lin Wood was based…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear 2 criminal cases, school district dispute
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced this week that it will hear a pair of criminal appeals questioning whether a murder suspect was in custody at the time of her interrogation, and whether police acted constitutionally when they executed an Internet-based search warrant. At least three of the court’s seven members must consent to review a…
