Cycle Encounter Draws Suspension, Probation

A recent sanction imposed by the Colorado Presiding Disciplinary Judge suspended an attorney for nine months, with six months to be served and three months to be stayed upon his successful completion of a one-year period of probation with conditions. 

On April 26, 2022, Haas pleaded guilty under a deferred judgment to third-degree assault, a class-one misdemeanor. The guilty plea arose from an incident in October 2021 when Haas, while driving his vehicle in Denver, engaged in a verbal dispute with a cyclist traveling along the shoulder of the road. During the incident, Haas sprayed water from a water bottle at the cyclist through the passenger-side window. Haas and the cyclist continued the verbal dispute, and Haas turned his vehicle to the right, striking the cyclist and throwing him off of his bicycle. Haas pulled his vehicle over, exited it, and approached the cyclist. Haas and the cyclist then had a physical altercation. Denver police officers eventually arrested Haas at the scene.

(Mike Frisch)