People v. Christopher C. Stevens. 19PDJ066. September 17, 2019. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved the parties’ conditional admission of misconduct and publicly censured Christopher C. Stevens (attorney registration number 48342), effective September 17, 2019.
On August 30, 2017, Stevens pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense of driving while under the influence of alcohol (“DWAI”) in Larimer County. The conviction was based on an April 2017 incident in which Stevens struck a road sign while intoxicated. Through a breath test, his blood alcohol content was measured at 0.198.
Stevens was sentenced to 455 days in jail, with 365 days suspended and the remainder served on work release, which he successfully moved to transition to in-home detention and thirty months of probation. Conditions of probation included monitored sobriety, forty hours of community service, and alcohol therapy.
Stevens reported his conviction to disciplinary authorities. Before his admission to practice law in Colorado, he had been convicted two previous times of driving while intoxicated.
Through this conduct, Stevens violated Colo. RPC 8.4(b) (it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects).
The case file is public per C.R.C.P. 251.31.