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First ever disciplinary trial of a Colorado judge scheduled under new system
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A disciplinary panel on Thursday scheduled a mid-August hearing to adjudicate the alleged misconduct of Montezuma County Court Judge Ian J. MacLaren. Following voters’ passage of constitutional Amendment H in November 2024, adjudication of serious judicial misconduct allegations is open to public scrutiny earlier in the process. The amendment also created a system in which three-member panels…
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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 justices uphold sanction against lawyer for being a ‘bully’ to school employees
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The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Monday that a public censure with a medical evaluation was an appropriate sanction for an attorney who, in his own words, acted like a bully toward school employees in the presence of his teenage client. Igor Raykin had appealed the punishment imposed by Colorado’s presiding disciplinary judge, arguing in…
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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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Disciplinary judge approves lawyer’s suspension for using ChatGPT to generate fake cases
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A Colorado lawyer has received a suspension for using artificial intelligence to generate fake case citations in a legal brief and then lying about it. The presiding disciplinary judge’s imposition of punishment on Zachariah C. Crabill is apparently the first to implicate the improper use of AI. The head of Colorado’s attorney regulation office, Jessica…
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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…