Colorado Felony
The Colorado Constitution names a felony as any offense where an
offender can be sentenced to a state penitentiary. It also states that
the court's authority to sentence an individual is statutory and only
the General Assembly can authorize the suspension of any sentences.
The court has options in imposing sentences during the conviction of a
felony. These include an imprisonment sentence with a mandatory parole
period; a sentence to the Youth Offender System; a fine of anywhere
from one hundred dollars or more; probation that can include intensive
supervision, confinement in a county jail facility, home restitution,
and detention; community corrections; and a suspended sentence.
Felony Classifications
Colorado places its felonies into varying classifications of severity.
The first class that has the highest form of punishment is a Class 1 Felony. This felony is
punishable by life in prison or death, both of which come without
parole. A Class 2 Felony is
punishable by as low as four years in prison and as much as forty-eight
years in prison. This can also include a fine anywhere between five
thousand dollars and one million dollars and has a mandatory parole
period of five years.
Class 3 Felonies come with no
less than two years in prison and no more than twenty-four years in
prison. A fine between three thousand dollars and seven hundred fifty
thousand dollars is also possible with a mandatory parole period of
five years. Class 4 Felonies
are punishable by no less than one year in prison and no more than
twelve years in prison. A parole period of three years follows along
with a possible fine between two thousand and five hundred thousand
dollars.
A Class 5 Felony can carry up
to six years in prison with a minimum of six months in prison. Two
years of parole are mandatory with a possible fine between one thousand
dollars and one hundred thousand dollars. The final class is the Class
6 Felony that can have sentences between six months and three years in
a state prison. One year of parole is mandatory in Class 6 Felonies
along with a possible fine between one thousand dollars and one hundred
thousand dollars.
Colorado Felony Expungement
Even as expungement erases criminal records, it does not mean that the
records disappear. These records are still available for civil use and
general law enforcement purposes. Under exceptional situations,
expunged records may be searched, used, or retrieved under court order
in extraneous circumstances. Even as arrest records and conviction
records may be expunged, other records that exist in the court -- civil
lawsuits, judgments, and property deeds -- will not be affected by
expungement.
Expungement legally erases criminal records and deems them legally
erased. In juvenile circumstances a district attorney, local law
enforcement agency, or the department of human services may have access
to past records when under the circumstances of the United States
military forces.
Only certain crimes can be expunged and include juvenile records or any
crime as motioned by the court. Most often this includes crimes that
have been acquitted or dismissed.
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