Disciplinary Case Summaries, 0317 COBJ, Vol. 46 No. 3 Pg. 117

46 Colo.Law. 117

Disciplinary Case Summaries

Vol. 46, No. 3 [Page 117]

The Colorado Lawyer

March, 2017

Office of the Presiding Disciplinary Judge

The summaries of disciplinary case Opinions and Conditional Admissions of Misconduct are prepared by the Office of the Presiding Disciplinary Judge (PDJ) and are provided as a service by the CBA. The CBA cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the summaries. Opinions, including exhibits, complaints, amended complaints, and summaries, are available at the PDJ website, ww.coloradosupremecourt.com/PDJ/PDJ_Decisions.asp, and on LexisNexis.® The summaries and full-text Opinions are also accessible from the CBA website: www.cobar.org (click on “For Members,” and then “Opinions/Rules/Statutes”).

No. 16PDJ032. People v. Benight. 12/8/2016

A hearing board suspended Brian M. Reed Benight, attorney registration number 45729, for two years, effective January 12, 2017. To be reinstated, Benight will bear the burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that he has been rehabilitated, has complied with disciplinary orders and rules, and is fit to practice law.

Through an anonymous text on an online application, Benight volunteered to fulfill a teenage girl’s request for alcohol. When Benight and the adolescent met, respondent sexually assaulted her, groping her breasts and vaginal area over her clothes without her consent. Benight eventually pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact, a class 1 misdemeanor. Benight thus violated Colo. RPC 8.4(b) (it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects).

No. 17PDJ001. People v. Logan. 1/4/2017

The PDJ approved the parties’ conditional admission of misconduct and suspended Bruce A. Logan, attorney registration number 14187, from the practice of law for one year and one day, all to be stayed upon the successful completion of a three-year period of probation with conditions. The probation was effective January 4, 2017.

Logan is subject to several orders entered in Arapahoe County requiring him to...

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