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 …
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.after he was suspended with pay in June while the disciplinary investigation was ongoing. His inappropriate behavior occurred during the conference in June 2022, according to the public censure.
Timbreza was drinking alcohol with several other conference attendees and made sexual advances toward a young attorney, according to the censure. The attorney did not welcome the attention, which included the judge showing him a pornographic image and kissing him. The attorney, identified only as “Attorney 1” in the censure, appeared uncomfortable with Timbreza’s advances, witnesses said. The man did not explicitly tell Timbreza to stop, and Timbreza, who was visibly intoxicated, believed his advances were welcome. The censure notes that the attorney was “younger and less experienced” than the judge, and “made best efforts to politely decline” the judge’s overtures “instead of forcefully rejecting them.”“What happened next is unclear,” the censure reads.
In addition to the public reprimand, Timbreza was also ordered to pay the state just over $20,000 in attorney fees. The ex-judge was previously disciplined in 2019 after he wasTimbreza’s attorney, Nancy Cohen, declined to comment on the censure Tuesday and Timbreza did not immediately return a request for comment.
The judge’s public censure is the first time a Colorado judge has been disciplined through a new disciplinary process created by the Colorado Supreme Court earlier this year.
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