People v. James Edward Marshall IV. 21PDJ065. April 4, 2022.
The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved the parties’ stipulation to discipline and suspended for three years James Edward Marshall IV (attorney registration number 52367). Significant mitigating factors influenced the sanction. The suspension took effect April 4, 2022.
On August 30, 2021, Marshall pleaded guilty to an amended count of tampering with a deceased human body, a class-three felony. The factual predicate involved an incident at a protest in which Marshall shot a gun through a vehicle’s side-tinted window, hitting the driver of the vehicle in the head. The driver was advancing through the protest and Marshall believed the driver was going to run over or hit Marshall’s wife. Marshall was able to jump out of the way, but he believed that his wife was still in the vehicle’s path. Video footage of the incident reflects that Marshall’s wife was not in actual danger, though the video was taken from an oblique angle.
Through this conduct, Marshall violated Colo. RPC 8.4(b) (providing that 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. 242.41(a)(2).