First Degree Kidnapping
If you or a family member have been charged with First Degree Kidnapping, you are going to need assistance from a skilled and confident attorney right away. The penalties for this charge are extreme, and the consequences very 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 does this mean?
First Degree Kidnapping is when a person intentionally forcibly takes another person from one place to another, or unlawfully persuades another person to go from one place to another, or forcibly imprisons or takes another person with the added intent of forcing others to pay or give up anything of value in order to get the person taken released.
First Degree Kidnapping is a Class 1 Felony, if the person taken suffers bodily injury, which carries a penalty of 16 years to life in the Department of Corrections.
First Degree Kidnapping is a Class 2 Felony if the person is released unharmed, which carries a penalty of up to 24 years in the Department of Corrections, and a fine of up to $1,000,000. If a deadly weapon is used in the kidnapping, and the person remains unharmed, the penalty can be up to 48 years in the Department of corrections, and a fine of up to $1,000,000.
C.R.S. 18-3-301 - First Degree Kidnapping
(1) Any person who does any of the following acts with the intent thereby to force the victim or any other person to make any concession or give up anything of value in order to secure a release of a person under the offender’s actual or apparent control commits first degree kidnapping:
(a) Forcibly seizes and carries any person from one place to another; or
(b) Entices or persuades any person to go from one place to another; or
(c) Imprisons or forcibly secretes any person.
(2) Whoever commits first degree kidnapping is guilty of a class 1 felony if the person kidnapped shall have suffered bodily injury; but no person convicted of first degree kidnapping shall suffer the death penalty if the person kidnapped was liberated alive prior to the conviction of the kidnapper.
(3) Whoever commits first degree kidnapping commits a class 2 felony if, prior to his conviction, the person kidnapped was liberated unharmed.
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