People v. Choi.

No. 24PDJ019. 12/31/2024. Amended Opinion Imposing Sanctions.

February 5, 2025

In October 2022, Yujin Choi intentionally acted to harm a coworker by fabricating text messages designed to make it appear that the coworker was harassing her. She doubled down on that deceit during her employer’s investigation into the messages by intentionally altering evidence. To maintain the ruse, she purposefully ruined her own phone and laptop to prevent her employer from forensically examining the devices, spinning a false narrative about their accidental destruction. Through this misconduct, she violated Colo. RPC 8.4(c) (it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation) and Colo. RPC 8.4(h) (it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in any conduct that directly, intentionally, and wrongfully harms others and that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness to practice law). Choi’s misconduct warrants her disbarment.