What are the ethics of prosecuting the law? How are lawyers supposed to conduct themselves? How are those ethics enforced? And what does serving the interests of justice mean? Those are the questions that have defined the investigation, prosecution, and disbarment of former 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley over the course of 2024. While in retrospect, Stanley’s actions might have seemed to obviously disqualify her as an attorney in Colorado, the decision to revoke her ability to work as an attorney was not made lightly by the three-person panel in October of 2024, and it was not made unanimously as the final vote on disbarment was two-to-one. The one dissenting vote felt that a lengthy suspension was more appropriate rather than disbarment. The consequences…