Colorado legal term
Knowledge in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Knowledge” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Colorado criminal code.
What does “Knowledge” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Knowledge" means actual knowledge of any restraint from whatever source or knowledge of circumstances sufficient to cause a reasonable person to be aware that such person's license or privilege to drive was under restraint. (C.R.S. § 42-2-138)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Concealment or removal of secured property
- Fraudulent acts
- Offering a false instrument for recording
- Unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, marking, altering, or modification of equipment and devices related to limited gaming
- Violations of taxation provisions
- Bait advertising
- Chop shop activity
- Collection of extensions of credit by extortionate means
- Crime of violation of a protection order
- Criminal possession of a forged instrument
- Criminal possession of forgery devices
- Criminal possession of second degree forged instrument
Related terms in the same statutes
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