Colorado statute
C.R.S. § 18-1-604 — Exemptions from liability based upon behavior of another.
Current through 2025 Regular Session
Part of Part 6: PARTIES TO OFFENSES - ACCOUNTABILITY, Colorado Revised Statutes.
Full text of C.R.S. § 18-1-604
Statutory text current through the 2025 Regular Session. This is an officially sanctioned publication using the official text of the Colorado Revised Statutes; it is not the official statutes of the State of Colorado.
(1) Unless otherwise provided by the statute defining the offense, a person shall not be legally accountable for behavior of another constituting an offense if he is a victim of that offense or the offense is so defined that his conduct is inevitably incidental to its commission. (2) It shall be an affirmative defense to a charge under section 18-1-603 if, prior to the commission of the offense, the defendant terminated his effort to promote or facilitate its commission and either gave timely warning to law enforcement authorities or gave timely warning to the intended victim.
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