Ex-US Judge Nottingham Faces Revived Lawyer Ethics Probe
The former chief federal judge in Denver announced his resignation earlier this month amid reports he asked a former prostitute to lie about paying her for sex, but that hasn’t put an end to his legal worries.
The FBI is investigating the report that U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham asked an ex-prostitute to lie to judicial investigators, while the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel has revived an ethics investigation of the resigning judge, reports 9News.com. The ethics probe will consider allegations that Nottingham was a client of two prostitution businesses, that he viewed pornography on his work computer, and that he intimidated a disabled woman in a dispute over a parking space, the story says.
The ethics probe will consider a complaint by Sean Harrington, who drew Nottingham’s ire when he represented himself and filed a lengthy motion, the Rocky Mountain News reports. The attorney regulation body had put Harrington’s request for an investigation on hold while the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals conducted its misconduct probe.
Updated at 11:39 a.m. to remove details of Harrington’s case that he disputed in an e-mail to the ABA Journal.
