Quote Originally Posted by foxtrot View Post
Ethics in CO is a joke. I've advocated CO to lose its immunity when it fails to investigate and discipline attorneys (to motivate attorney regulation). It really needs to be out of the hands of the state altogether. Our registered attorneys of course disagree and like the present system. The only cases that get investigated are financial (e.g. attorney steals client money) because they look at an invoice, say "yup, should have refunded" and that's it.

Conflicts of interest, criminal allegations, forging documents, any of the other rules... no investigation.

Also don't forget, there is prosecutor immunity, a prosecutor is immune for every action he undertakes. Every. He can literally knowingly forge documents and knowingly hire paid witnesses to lie about you, and risk no criminal, no civil penalty whatsoever even if caught red handed. The only thing he risks is his law license, and guess what.

Attorney regulation probably isn't going to investigate it unless he's been stealing money from the D.A.'s office or something. Even if a prosecutor is knowingly forging documents. Welcome to 99 problem's lesson #10 on how there is no check nor balance of any kind on the judicial system.
Actually there are registered attorneys who do and don't agree with you. Frankly, I've seen attorney regulation that was more lenient than Colorado's. While prosecutor immunity is quite broad, you exaggerate it a bit. Certainly no prosecutor is going to be investigated for a charging decision where there was an indictment by grand jury.

Certainly, attorney regulation is most comfortable investigating attorneys who steal money because its easiest to prove.