What IS Aggravated ROBBERY?

• Robbery is when a person knowingly takes anything of value (steals) from another person, and does so while using force, threats of force, or another other form of intimidation to accomplish the crime.

• Aggravated Robbery is when someone commits a Robbery while using a deadly weapon, wounds or strikes the victim with a deadly weapon, uses an item that looks like a deadly weapon, or verbally tells the victim the item they are using is a deadly weapon.

• Aggravated Robbery is a Class 3 Felony, and the charge carries a penalty of up to 16 years in the Department of Corrections and a fine of up to $750,000. There are instances where the penalty can be up to 32 years in the Department of Corrections if the crime was committed with a deadly weapon and the victim was seriously injured.

C.R.S. 18-4-302 - Aggravated ROBBERY

(1) A person who commits robbery is guilty of aggravated robbery if during the act of robbery or immediate flight therefrom:

(a) He is armed with a deadly weapon with intent, if resisted, to kill, maim, or wound the person robbed or any other person; or

(b) He knowingly wounds or strikes the person robbed or any other person with a deadly weapon or by the use of force, threats, or intimidation with a deadly weapon knowingly puts the person robbed or any other person in reasonable fear of death or bodily injury; or

(c) He has present a confederate, aiding or abetting the perpetration of the robbery, armed with a deadly weapon, with the intent, either on the part of the defendant or confederate, if resistance is offered, to kill, maim, or wound the person robbed or any other person, or by the use of force, threats, or intimidation puts the person robbed or any other person in reasonable fear of death or bodily injury; or

(d) He possesses any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead any person who is present reasonably to believe it to be a deadly weapon or represents verbally or otherwise that he is then and there so armed.

(3) Aggravated robbery is a class 3 felony and is an extraordinary risk crime that is subject to the modified presumptive sentencing range specified in section 18-1.3-401 (10).

(4) If a defendant is convicted of aggravated robbery pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section, the court shall sentence the defendant in accordance with the provisions of section 18-1.3-406.