Legal Question in Criminal Law in Colorado

Help me get my life back part 2!!!

I just received a reply to my question of (I was charged with driving under restraint in a small town in colorado almost ten years ago and have been trying forever it seems to get things cleared up. I had a lawyer at the time of the violation, but had moved out of state before ever going to trial. Time slipped by and I never got the situation resolved. I have been trying to talk with the DA about my case but he refuses and says he can not do anything due do some thing about my lawyer. I have tried contacting the lawyer I used but he has been disbarred. How can I get him off of my case so I can move forward in life?) The advice giving was to enter a substitution of counsel, citing the supreme court case where your last lawyer was disiplined. I am really not sure what all this means. I looked for the form for subing a lawyer which shows I would need it filled out by my previous lawyer which I have absolutely no way of getting in contact with. Is there a way to simply remove him from the case seeing how I can't get him to do anything or am I going to have to hire another attorney to remove the old one. Help Please!!


Asked on 10/23/06, 11:12 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Daniel Fenaughty FENAUGHTY & ASSOCIATES, PC

Re: Help me get my life back part 2!!!

You can do this yourself. You do not need the past lawyer to fill anything out. Write a letter. Send it to the judge in your last case. Say you want this ex-lawyer removed from your case. Certainly the court would not wish to assist this past lawyer in the unlicensed practice of law. You will need to give the name of the lawyer and the month or year of that lawyer's disbarment. Put it in a letter. Put it in the mail. I would think that in your "years" of trying to "get [your] life back" you would have mailed a letter to the court.

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Answered on 10/24/06, 4:07 pm


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