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    The Colorado Crime of First Degree Burglary 18-4-202

    The Colorado Crime of First Degree Burglary 18-4-202

    To understand the Colorado Criminal Code and more specifically the charge or charges in the Complaint and Information or Grand Jury Indictment against you – you need TWO things.

    I. You Will Need To Understand The Actual Statutory Crime With Which You Have Been Charged

    – The statute, as of 2016, appears first on this page.

    II. You Will Also Need To Understand How The Jury Or Judge Reads The Elements – ( a jury instruction “breakout” of the necessary parts or list of things that make up the crime)

    – The Jury Instructions for most of the main forms of the crimes with which individuals are charged – appears after a reprint of the statute defining the crime.

    The Colorado Statute Creating The Crime Of First Degree Burglary

    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.
    (3) If under the circumstances stated in subsection (1) of this section the property involved is a controlled substance, as defined in section 18-18-102(5), within a pharmacy or other place having lawful possession thereof, such person commits first degree burglary of controlled substances, which is a class 2 felony.

    Cite as C.R.S. § 18-4-202

    What Follows Are The Colorado Criminal Jury Instructions For First Degree Burglary

    FIRST DEGREE BURGLARY 18-4-202

    The elements of the crime of first degree burglary are:

    1. That the defendant,

    2. in the State of Colorado, at or about the date and place charged,

    3. knowingly,

    4. entered unlawfully, or remained unlawfully after a lawful or unlawful entry,

    5. in a building or occupied structure,

    6. with intent,

    7. to commit therein the crime[s] of [insert name(s) of offense(s)], + against another person or property, and

    8. in effecting entry or while in the building or occupied structure or in immediate flight from the building or occupied structure,

    [9. the defendant or another participant in the crime committed the crime of assault or the crime of menacing against any person.]

    [9. the defendant or another participant in the crime was armed with explosives.]

    [9. the defendant or another participant in the crime used a deadly weapon or possessed and threatened the use of a deadly weapon.] [10. and that the defendant’s conduct was not legally authorized by the affirmative defense[s] in Instruction[s] ___.]

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