Disorderly Conduct

If you or a family member have been charged with Disorderly Conduct, you are going to need assistance from a skilled and confident attorney right away. The penalties for this charge are serious, and the consequences long lasting. Remember to remain silent, ask for an attorney, and call the firm right away. The sooner you obtain legal representation, the easier it will be to navigate the criminal justice system for you and your family.

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What is Disorderly Conduct?

  • Disorderly Conduct is when a person knowingly or recklessly:

    • Curses or inappropriately gestures in a way which creates an immediate breach of the peace; or

    • Makes unreasonable noise in public or near a private residence when not allowed to be there; or

    • Fights in a public place; or

    • Discharges a firearm in public place where it is not allowed; pr

    • Displays a real or fake firearm or tells others they have a firearm in a public place and in a way that makes others afraid.

  • Disorderly Conduct Can be a Petty Offense or a Class 1 or 2 Misdemeanor.

C.R.S. 18-9-106 - Disorderly Conduct

(1) A person commits disorderly conduct if he or she intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:

(a) Makes a coarse and obviously offensive utterance, gesture, or display in a public place and the utterance, gesture, or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace; or

(c) Makes unreasonable noise in a public place or near a private residence that he has no right to occupy; or

(d) Fights with another in a public place except in an amateur or professional contest of athletic skill; or

(e) Not being a peace officer, discharges a firearm in a public place except when engaged in lawful target practice or hunting or the ritual discharge of blank ammunition cartridges as an attendee at a funeral for a deceased person who was a veteran of the armed forces of the United States; or

(f) Not being a peace officer, displays a real or simulated firearm, displays any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a firearm, or represents verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a firearm in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm and does alarm another person.

(3)

(a) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(a) or (1)(c) of this section is a petty offense; except that, if the offense is committed with intent to disrupt, impair, or interfere with a funeral, or with intent to cause severe emotional distress to a person attending a funeral, it is a class 2 misdemeanor.

(b) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(d) of this section is a petty offense.

(c) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(f) of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor.

(d) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(e) of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor.

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