FIRST Degree BURGLARY

If you or a family member have been charged with First Degree Burglary, you are going to need assistance from a skilled and confident attorney right away. The penalties for this charge can include up to 16 years in prison and very large fines. The sooner you obtain legal representation, the easier it will be to navigate the criminal justice system.

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What IS First Degree BURGLARY?

  • First Degree Burglary is when a person knowingly enters into a building or any other occupied structure, while there to commit a crime against another person or the property, and while committing the crime the person or another participant menaces another person with a deadly weapon or the threatened use of a deadly weapon.

  • First Degree Burglary carries a penalty of up to 16 years in the Department of Corrections and a fine of up to $750,000.

C.R.S. 18-4-202 - First Degree BURGLARY

(1) A person commits first degree burglary if the person knowingly enters unlawfully, or remains unlawfully after a lawful or unlawful entry, in a building or occupied structure with intent to commit therein a crime, other than trespass as defined in this article, against another person or property, and if in effecting entry or while in the building or occupied structure or in immediate flight therefrom, the person or another participant in the crime assaults or menaces any person, the person or another participant is armed with explosives, or the person or another participant uses a deadly weapon or possesses and threatens the use of a deadly weapon.

(2) First degree burglary is a class 3 felony.

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