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Colorado Criminal Law Concepts
856 legal terms defined by Colorado statute, each with its verbatim statutory definition.
A
- Abandon
- Abuse
- Abuse of the elderly or of an at-risk adult
- Academic record
- Access device
- Account holder
- Act of domestic violence
- Action
- Action to abate a public nuisance
- Actor
- Actual or constructive control
- Actual or constructive possession
- Adjudicated
- Adjudication
- Adult
- Adult sex offender
- Adulterated
- Affiliate
- Affirmative defense
- Agent
- Aggregate material
- Aggregate wholesale value
- Aggrieved person
- Aircraft
- Alcohol- or drug-related offender
- Alcoholic beverage
- Ammunition
- Anabolic steroid
- Anal intercourse
- Animal
- Applicable facility
- Applicant
- Approved ignition interlock device
- Arraignment
- Arrest and criminal records information
- Arrest number
- Article
- Assessment
- Assist
- Assistance animal
- Assisted reproduction
- At-risk adult
- At-risk adult with IDD
- At-risk elder
- At-risk juvenile
- At-risk person
- Audiovisual recording function
- Aural transfer
- Authorization
- Authorized representative
- Authorizing entity
- Automated banking device
B
- Bad check
- Bail
- Bail insurance company
- Ballistic knife
- Basic identification information
- Behavioral health
- Benefit
- Beverage
- Beverage container
- BHA
- Bind over
- Biometric data
- Birthday
- Blackjack
- Blind
- Blinded
- Board
- Board system
- Bodily injury
- Bomb
- Bond
- Book or register
- Borrower
- Bottle
- Bridges wraparound care program
- Building
- Bureau
- Business entity
C
- Cable operator
- Cable service
- Cable system
- Can
- Caretaker
- Caretaker neglect
- Cathinones
- Cave
- Cave resource
- CBI
- CCIC
- Cellular phone
- Certified police working dog
- Charge
- Check
- Chief information officer
- Child
- Child representative
- Chop shop
- CICJIS
- Civil disorder
- Claim
- Clergy member
- Client
- Cloned cellular phone
- Cloning equipment
- Co-occurring disorder
- Cocaine
- Code enforcement officer
- Coercing
- Coercion
- Coin machine
- Cold case
- Collateral consequence
- Collateral materials
- Collateral sanction
- Collection
- Collections investigator
- Colorado criminal investigator
- Colorado mental health institute
- Commercial sexual activity
- Commodity metal
- Common carrier
- Communicable disease
- Community clinic emergency center
- Compensated surety
- Competency evaluation
- Competency evaluator
- Competency hearing
- Competent to proceed
- Complaint
- Complete written instrument
- Computer
- Computer network
- Computer program
- Computer software
- Computer system
- Computer-generated
- Concealed handgun training class
- Conduct
- Conducts or attempts to conduct a financial transaction
- Consent
- Container
- Continuous alcohol monitoring
- Contraband article
- Contracting entity
- Controlled intersection
- Controlled substance
- Controlled substance analog
- Convicted
- Conviction
- Conviction records
- Copy
- Copyright
- Correctional facility
- Correctional institution
- Correctional official
- Cosmetic
- Cost of care
- Counterfeit mark
- Court facility dog
- Court of record
- Court-ordered competency evaluation
- Court-ordered report
- Credibility disclosure notification
- Credible threat
- Credit card number
- Creditor
- Crime
- Crime against a child
- Crime against an at-risk person
- Crime laboratory
- Crime of violence
- Crime stopper organization
- Criminal justice agencies
- Criminal justice agency
- Criminal justice records
- Criminal proceedings
- Criminal street gang
- Critical stages
- Crossover youth plan
- Culpable mental state
- Cunnilingus
- Custodial interrogation
- Custodian
- Custody
- Cycle the action
D
- Damage
- Dangerous dog
- DCIS
- Deadly physical force
- Deadly weapon
- Dealer
- Debt bondage
- Debtor
- Deface
- Defendant
- Defense counsel personnel
- Delinquent act
- Department
- Dependent
- Depicted individual
- Destructive device
- Detachable magazine
- Detached catalytic converter
- Detention facility
- Determinate period
- Developmental disability
- Device
- Diagnostic and evaluation center
- Diagnostic test
- Digital depiction
- Digital signature
- Digitization
- Digitized signature
- Direct appeal
- Direct appeal counsel
- Direct supervision
- Director
- Disability
- Disclose
- Dispense
- Dispenser
- Disposed of
- Disposition
- Disqualification
- Distribute
- Distributor
- Diversion
- DNA
- DNA evidence
- DNA profile
- Document
- Document-making implement
- Documentary material
- Dog
- Domestic abuse
- Domestic animal
- Domestic violence
- Domestic violence offender
- Domestic violence offense
- Donor
- Drawee
- Drawer
- Drive-by crime
- Driving improvement course
- Driving under the influence
- Driving while ability impaired
- Drug
- Drug enforcement administration
- Drug offender
- Drug paraphernalia
- Dually identified crossover youth
- DUI
- DWAI
- Dwelling
E
- Edition of a newspaper
- Educator
- Elected official
- Election duties
- Election official
- Election worker
- Electronic communication
- Electronic communication service
- Electronic communications system
- Electronic device
- Electronic gaming machine
- Electronic media
- Electronic recording
- Electronic serial number
- Electronic signature
- Electronic storage
- Eligible person
- Emergency medical care provider
- Emergency medical service provider
- Employed at an institution of postsecondary education
- Employment
- Enclosed
- Encoding machine
- Engaged in the business
- Enterprise
- Entrant
- Erotic fondling
- Erotic nudity
- Establishment
- Estate
- Ethyl alcohol
- Euthanasia
- Exceed authorized access
- Excess BAC
- Excess BAC CDL
- Excess BAC underage
- Excess BAC underage CDL
- Executive authority
- Executive board
- Executive director
- Exempt party
- Exhibition
- Explicit sexual conduct
- Exploitation
- Explosive or incendiary device
- Explosive or incendiary parts
- Express direction
- Extension of credit
- Extraordinary circumstances
- Eyewitness
F
- Facility
- Facility of public transportation
- Facility of utility transmission
- Favorable result
- Federal firearms license
- Federal firearms licensee
- Federally licensed firearm dealer
- Federally licensed firearm importer
- Federally licensed firearm manufacturer
- Fee-paid position
- Fellatio
- Felony complaint
- Filler
- Final report
- Financial assistance
- Financial device
- Financial identifying information
- Financial instrument
- Financial responsibility
- Financial transaction
- Financial transaction device
- Finished drug product
- Fire control component
- Firearm
- Firearm silencer
- Firefighter
- Flowering
- Forensic psychologist
- Forensic services provider
- Forged instrument
- Frame or receiver of a firearm
- Fresh pursuit
- Funeral
- Funeral site
G
- Gain
- Gambling
- Gambling device
- Gambling information
- Gambling premises
- Gambling proceeds
- Gambling record
- Gametes
- Gas gun
- Gas-operated semiautomatic handgun
- Generative AI
- Good faith mistake
- Governing body
- Government
- Government entity
- Governmental function
- Governmental unit
- Governor
- Graduated responses
- Gun show
- Gun show promoter
- Gun show vendor
H
I
- ICON
- Identifiable child
- Identification document
- Identification number
- Identifying information
- Illegal telecommunications equipment
- Image
- Image editing software
- Imitation controlled substance
- Immediate family
- Immediate precursor
- Immigration enforcement operation
- Impaired mental condition
- In connection with
- In-custody
- Incarcerated
- Incompetent to proceed
- Incomplete written instrument
- Indian
- Indictment
- Ineligible for release
- Ineligible to remain on conditional release
- Inert material
- Infant formula
- Information
- Inherently hazardous substance
- Injury
- Inpatient
- Instrumental
- Insufficient funds
- Insurance
- Insurance producer
- Insurer
- Intellectual and developmental disability
- Intercept
- Interrogation
- Intimate digital depiction
- Intimate parts
- Intimate relationship
- Investigative or law enforcement officer
- Isomer
- Issuer
J
K
L
- Lacks a fixed residence
- Large-capacity magazine
- Laser device
- Law enforcement agency
- Law enforcement animal
- Law enforcement officer
- Law enforcement personnel
- Lawful authorization
- Lawful representative
- Lease
- License
- Licensed gun dealer
- Life-threatening situation
- Live lineup
- Livestock
- Loan
- Loan finance charge
- Loan finder
- Local government
- Local jurisdiction
- Local law enforcement agency
- Location information
- Location information service
- Locked space
- Locking device
- Long-term care facility
- Low-speed conveyance
M
- Machine gun
- Magistrate
- Maintain
- Major component motor vehicle part
- Makes available
- Management board
- Manufacture
- Manufacturer
- Marijuana
- Marijuana concentrate
- Marijuana paraphernalia
- Masturbation
- Material
- Materially false statement
- Mechanical restraint
- Medical caregiver
- Medical information
- Medical record
- Medical-reporting victim
- Mental capacity
- Mental disability
- Mental disease or defect
- Mental health disorder
- Mental health hospital placement prescreening
- Mental health professional
- Mentally incompetent to be executed
- Minor
- Minor child
- Minor offense
- Mislabeled
- Missing person
- Mistaken identity
- Mistreatment
- Mobile identification document
- Mobile identification number
- Modification of sentence
- Monetary instrument
- Money advanced by a governmental agency for a service animal
- Mortgage broker
- Mortgage lending process
- Mortgage servicer
- Motion picture theater
- Motor vehicle
N
O
- Oath
- Obscene
- Obscene device
- Obscure
- Obstacle
- Occupied structure
- Of another
- Offender
- Office of alternate defense counsel
- Office of the state public defender
- Officer
- Official actions
- Official document
- Official proceeding
- Omission
- On the board
- One or more drugs
- Open alcoholic beverage container
- Open marijuana container
- Opiate
- Opioid
- Opioid antagonist
- Opioid-related drug overdose event
- Opium poppy
- Oral communication
- Order
- Outpatient
- Owner
P
- Palliative care
- Parole board
- Participant in the address confidentiality program
- Party officer
- Passenger area
- Patently offensive
- Pattern of criminal gang activity
- Pattern of racketeering activity
- Pattern of sexual abuse
- Payment card
- Peace officer
- Pecuniary benefit
- Pen register
- Performance
- Period of parole
- Periodical
- Permanent detention facility
- Permit
- Person in interest
- Person of unsound mind
- Person with a disability
- Personal identification code
- Personal identification number
- Personal identifying information
- Personal information
- Personal recognizance
- Personal use
- Personalized firearm
- Petition in delinquency
- Peyote
- Pharmacy
- Photo array
- Physical identification document
- Physically helpless
- Place of confinement
- Plant
- Point
- Police working horse
- Poppy straw
- Position of trust
- Possession of ethyl alcohol
- Possession of marijuana
- Postconviction review
- Postconviction review appeal
- Postpartum period
- Practitioner
- Precious or semiprecious metals or stones
- Predicate criminal acts
- Pregnant or postpartum defendant
- Pregnant or postpartum juvenile
- Preliminary hearing
- Premises
- Previous task force
- Prisoner
- Private custodian
- Private employment agency
- Private intimate image
- Private intimate parts
- Private property
- Prize
- Procure
- Produce
- Professional gambling
- Program
- Promote
- Prone position
- Prone restraint
- Proof of age
- Proof of prior fare payment
- Proper authorization
- Property
- Prosecuting attorney
- Prosecutor
- Prostitution by a child
- Prostitution of a child
- Protected person
- Protection order
- Protective counseling
- Prurient interest
- Psychotherapist
- Psychotherapy
- Public
- Public conveyance
- Public defender
- Public health worker
- Public nuisance act
- Public place
- Public safety agency
- Public safety emergency call center
- Public safety entity
- Public safety radio network
- Public safety worker
- Public servant
- Public transportation entity
- Public transportation vehicle
- Purchase
- Purchaser
Q
R
- Racketeering activity
- Radar jamming device
- Rapid-fire device
- Readily accessible to the general public
- Real property
- Receiving center
- Recovery position
- Recyclables
- Refresher class
- Refusal
- Registrant
- Registry
- Release examination
- Release hearing
- Remote computing service
- Remuneration
- Render assistance
- Rent
- Repeating gambling offender
- Reporting agency
- Represent
- Representing
- Reproductive health-care services worker
- Rescue specialist
- Researcher
- Reservation
- Reservation driving privilege
- Reserve officer
- Residence
- Residential community placement
- Residential mortgage loan
- Residential property
- Residential real property
- Resides
- Respondent
- Responsible adult
- Restitution
- Restoration evaluation
- Restoration hearing
- Restoration progress review hearing
- Restoration to competency hearing
- Restorative justice
- Restorative justice practices
- Restrained person
- Retail ammunition deliverer
- Retail ammunition vendor
- Retail value
- Riot
S
- Sabotage
- Sadomasochism
- Sadomasochistic abuse
- Sale
- Sales form
- Salvia divinorum
- Sanity examination
- Scanning device
- School
- Screening
- Screening team
- Second evaluation
- Secondhand dealer
- Secondhand property
- Secure facility
- Security interest
- Seizing agency
- Self-induced intoxication
- Seller
- Semiautomatic firearm
- Sentencing hearing
- Separate building
- Serious bodily injury
- Serious harm
- Service animal
- Service member
- Service-animal-in-training
- Services
- Settlement service
- Sex offender
- Sex offender registry
- Sex offense
- Sex offense against a child
- Sexual act with an animal
- Sexual activity
- Sexual acts
- Sexual conduct
- Sexual contact
- Sexual excitement
- Sexual intercourse
- Sexual intrusion
- Sexual offense
- Sexual orientation
- Sexual penetration
- Sexual violence
- Sexually explicit nudity
- Sexually exploitative material
- Sexually violent predator
- Shelter-in-place order
- Sheriff
- Short rifle
- Short shotgun
- Showup
- Significant event
- Significant other
- Simulated
- Simulated gambling device
- Slug
- Social media
- Specified semiautomatic firearm
- Speleogen
- Speleothem
- Splash guards
- Sports contest
- Sports official
- Sports participant
- Staff secure facility
- Stalking
- Standardized mental health disorder screening
- State and federal law
- State identification number
- State permit
- Status offense
- Stay of execution
- Store
- Student
- Stun gun
- Subsequent order
- Summons
- Supervising court
- Supervising individual
- Sweepstakes
- Synthetic cannabinoid
T
- Tamper
- Targeted picketing
- Task force
- Technical assistance team
- Technical violation
- Teen
- Teen court judge
- Teen defendant
- Teen defense attorney
- Teen jury
- Teen prosecutor
- Telecommunication identifying device
- Telecommunications device
- Telecommunications provider
- Telecommunications service
- Telephone company
- Telephone record
- Temporary resident
- Testimony
- Tetrahydrocannabinols
- Theft detection deactivating device
- Theft detection device
- Theft detection shielding device
- Therapeutic deception
- Thing of value
- Tier 1
- Tier 2
- Title insurance agency
- Title insurance company
- Tracking device
- Trade secret
- Trademark
- TRAILS
- Trainer of a service animal
- Training certificate
- Training school
- Transaction
- Transfer
- Transgender identity
- Transit pass
- Transit worker
- Transport
- Trap and trace device
- Trash
- Travel expenses
- Travel services
- Treatment
- Treatment evaluation
- Trial counsel
- Tribal code
- Tribal court
- Tribe