A former Colorado judge who acknowledges that his judgment was impaired by alcohol during an informal gathering at a state bar event has been publicly censured for repeatedly propositioning a lawyer there.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A Colorado judge who made drunken overtures to a younger lawyer at a bar association meeting and later followed him to his hotel room was hit with $20,000 in sanctions by a special tribunal of the Colorado Supreme Court, after the judge agreed to step down and accept public censure.
A former Mesa County District Court judge was publicly censured Monday over drunken sexual advances he made toward an attorney during a Colorado Bar Association conference in what is the first use of the Colorado Supreme Court's new system for disciplining judges.
A special tribunal of the Colorado Supreme Court publicly censured former District Court Judge Lance Timbreza on Monday, and ordered him to pay $20,658 in attorney fees and court costs.