A Denver magistrate this week was publicly censured after a woman appearing in his courtroom accused him of passing her a note asking for a date and calling her four times in one day.

The decision means the incident will be in Robert E. Gilbert’s disciplinary record as long as he’s an attorney, a three-judge panel of the state Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel said in a written opinion late Monday.

Rena Rodriguez had said Gilbert passed her a post-it on Sept. 26, 2005, during a small-claims lawsuit in which she was a defendant.

She said the note read: "Will you see me?" and underneath it "Yes or No."

Gilbert also called the woman on her cell phone four times the same day, leaving her a message saying: "My name is Bob, I’m trying to reach Rena. If this is the right phone number please call me at ..." and left his home office number.

The disciplinary panel said Gilbert, a lawyer and magistrate for 23 years, violated the code of judicial conduct in making the four calls, but it did not find enough evidence that he handed Rodriguez a note.