Ex-Judge Has Law License Suspended for Affair With Prosecutor
A former Colorado judge has had his law license suspended for three years after an affair with a prosecutor.
Grafton Minot Biddle of Douglas County was accused of having an affair with deputy district attorney Laurie Hurst. Despite the liaison, she had appeared in his courtroom for two trials and to make sentencing recommendations in other cases, the Denver Post reports. Hurst has already agreed to suspension of her law license.
A disciplinary complaint contended the two had sex in Biddle’s courtroom and in the women’s shower facilities. Biddle’s wife told the presiding judge about the affair in a letter after Biddle denied it, according to a report by Colorado Supreme Court Presiding Disciplinary Judge William Lucero.
Biddle resigned last year, the Rocky Mountain News reports.
A hat tip to Above the Law, which posted one of the stories.
