People v. Robert Christopher Reade. 17PDJ085. December 21, 2017. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved the parties’ conditional admission of misconduct and suspended Robert Christopher Reade (attorney registration number 29131) for three years, retroactive to June 25, 2014. Reade’s reinstatement in Colorado is conditioned on his reinstatement from his suspension in Nevada.
On November 16, 2017, the Supreme Court of Nevada suspended Reade from the practice of law for four years, retroactive to June 25, 2014, the date of his temporary suspension in Nevada. Reade’s suspension was premised on his felony conviction of accessory after the fact to money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 3.
Reade’s misconduct constitutes grounds for reciprocal discipline under C.R.C.P. 251.5 and 251.21, which calls for imposition of the same discipline as that imposed in Nevada. A four-year suspension is not available in Colorado, however; the longest period of suspension permitted here is three years. Reade was immediately suspended from the practice of law in Colorado on September 16, 2014, and the parties stipulate that Reade’s three-year suspension should be retroactive to June 25, 2014.
Through his misconduct, Reade violated Colo. RPC 8.4(b) (a lawyer shall not commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects).