Disciplinary Case Summaries
| Publication year | 2022 |
| Pages | 70 |
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDING DISCIPLINARY JUDGE
No. 21PDI039. People v. Bovino. 3/17/2022. Conditional Admission of Misconduct
The Presiding Disciplinary ludge approved the parties' conditional admission of misconduct and suspended David Andrew Bovino (attorney registration number 40730) for one year and one day, with six months to be served and six months and one day to be stayed upon the successful completion of a three-year period of probation, with conditions. The suspension was effective April 21, 2022.
In 2015 and 2016, and again from 2018 through 2020, Bovino failed to make all of his child support payments. In 2016 and 2019, he misrepresented that he was in compliance with support orders on his attorney registration form. On his attorney registration forms for 2018 and 2020, he misrepresented that he was not under any child support obligation.
In October 2020, Bovino pleaded guilty to harassment, a class 3 misdemeanor, for sending three obscene and harassing text messages to his wife's friend, with the intent to annoy the friend and to prompt her to leave his home. Bovino received a deferred judgment with 12 months of unsupervised probation, 20 hours of community service, and court costs. The criminal case has since been dismissed.
Through this conduct, Bovino violated Colo. RPC 3.4(c) (a lawyer shall not knowingly disobey an obligation under the rules of a tribunal); Colo. RPC 8.4(b) (a lawyer shall not commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects); and Colo. RPC 8.4(c) (a lawyer shall not engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation).
No. 21PDI084. People v. Burton. 1/28/2022. Reciprocal Discipline.
The Presiding Disciplinary Judge entered default and imposed reciprocal discipline, suspending John S. Burton (attorney registration number 12188) from the practice of law in Colorado for 90 days, to run concurrent with his suspension of six months and one day in case number 21PDI009. Burton's suspension took effect on March 4, 2022.
This reciprocal discipline case arose out of discipline imposed up on Burton in Arizona. On September 30, 2021, the Presiding Disciplinary Judge for the State Bar of Arizona entered an order suspending Burton from the practice of law for 90 days, to run concurrent with his suspension in...
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