Rule 251.4.Duty of Judge to Report 
 Misconduct or Disability 
 A judge has a duty to report unprofessional conduct by an attorney to 
 Regulation 
 Counsel pursuant to Canon 3(B)(3) of the Colorado Code of Judicial Conduct.  No 
 action taken by any judge pursuant to Canon 3(B)(3) shall in any way limit the 
 power of 
 the reporting  judge to exercise the power of contempt against an attorney, nor 
 should 
 the reporting of such matters to the Regulation Counsel be used in lieu of 
 contempt 
 proceedings. 
  
 

                                                                
ANNOTATIONSSource: 
 Amended and adopted June 25, 1998, effective January 1, 1999. 
  
  
  
 Editor's note: 
 This rule was previously numbered as 
 241.5. 
  
  
  
 Am. Jur.2d.  See 7 Am. Jur.2d, Attorneys at Law, 
 Section104. 
  
 Annotator's note. 
 The following annotations include cases decided under former 
 provisions similar to this rule. 
  
 Rule held constitutional. 
 Rule provides sufficient guidelines to impose attorney discipline 
 and is not, therefore, unconstitutionally vague in violation of due 
 process of law.  People v. Morley, 725 P.2d 510 (Colo. 1986). 
  
 A most sacred duty is to maintain the integrity of the law profession 
 by disciplining lawyers who indulge in practices which are designed to 
 perpetrate a fraud on the courts.  People v. Radinsky, 176 Colo. 357, 
 490 P.2d 951 (1971). 
  
 Where the court specifically noted that the issue of contempt was not 
 properly before the court, the trial court lacked authority to impose 
 disciplinary sanctions against an attorney, along with client, for failing 
 to disclose at the settlement conference that funds were never paid into the 
 directory.  Mulei v. Jet Courier Service, Inc., 860 P.2d 569 (Colo. App. 
 1993). 
  
 Applied in Coerber v. Rath, 164 Colo. 294, 435 P.2d 228 (1967); 
 People ex rel. Aisenberg v. Young, 198 Colo. 26, 599 P.2d 257 (1979).