People v. Wilhelm.

No. 26PDJ11. 3/20/2026. Stipulation to Discipline.

April 1, 2026

The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved the parties’ stipulation to discipline and publicly censured Colin James Wilhelm, attorney registration number 48473, with conditions. The public censure took effect on March 20, 2026.

On January 3, 2025, Wilhelm was pulled over by the Glenwood Springs Police Department and issued a summons for driving under the influence (DUI). Wilhelm entered into a plea agreement on May 8, 2025, in which he pleaded guilty to one count of DUI. Wilhelm was sentenced to 36 months of supervised probation, which included a 30-day in-home detention sentence, 48 hours of community service, alcohol evaluation and treatment, and one year of jail to be suspended on Wilhelm’s successful completion of probation. This was Wilhelm’s second DUI conviction; his first conviction occurred in Michigan in 2018.

Wilhelm did not self-report his Colorado DUI conviction to disciplinary authorities as he was required to do under CRCP 242.11.

Wilhelm entered an in-patient treatment program in the summer of 2025 and successfully completed it. He is currently in an intensive outpatient treatment program and is compliant with his probationary terms in his DUI case.

Through the conduct described above, Wilhelm violated Colo. RPC 3.4(c) (a lawyer must not knowingly disobey an obligation under the rules of a tribunal) and Colo. RPC 8.4(b) (it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects).