Colorado statute
C.R.S. § 18-8-508 — Perjury - retraction.
Current through 2025 Regular Session
Part of Part 5: PERJURY AND RELATED OFFENSES, Colorado Revised Statutes.
Full text of C.R.S. § 18-8-508
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.
No person shall be convicted of perjury in the first degree if he retracted his false statement in the course of the same proceeding in which it was made. Statements made in separate hearings at separate stages of the same trial or administrative proceeding shall be deemed to have been made in the course of the same proceeding. Retraction is an affirmative defense.
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