Assault on a Police Officer in Douglas County

C.R.S. 18-3-203

In Larkspur, men and women are charged with Assault in the Second Degree, or Assault on a Police Officer, C.R.S. 18-3-203, after causing injury to police by accident. Whether someone is being arrested while intoxicated and they accidentally elbow police while resisting an excessive force arrest, or whether someone accidentally injures an officer during a riot, Assault on Police charges will be filed. Even if a police officer experiences minor pain after an alleged assault, such as a bruise, it is enough to file charges of Second Degree Assault on a Peace Officer in Parker. This crime has mandatory prison, so we treat it with special care.

Assault in the second degree – C.R.S. 18-3-203

For the full legal definition, CLICK HERE. For the purpose of this page, here are some excerpts of the law that involved Assault on a Police Officer:

(1) A person commits the crime of assault in the second degree if:

(c) With intent to prevent one whom he or she knows, or should know, to be a peace officer, firefighter, emergency medical care provider, or emergency medical service provider from performing a lawful duty, he or she intentionally causes bodily injury to any person; or

(c.5) With intent to prevent one whom he or she knows, or should know, to be a peace officer, firefighter, or emergency medical service provider from performing a lawful duty, he or she intentionally causes serious bodily injury to any person; or

(f) While lawfully confined or in custody, he or she knowingly and violently applies physical force against the person of a peace officer, firefighter, or emergency medical service provider engaged in the performance of his or her duties, or a judge of a court of competent jurisdiction, or an officer of said court, or, while lawfully confined or in custody as a result of being charged with or convicted of a crime or as a result of being charged as a delinquent child or adjudicated as a delinquent child, he or she knowingly and violently applies physical force against a person engaged in the performance of his or her duties while employed by or under contract with a detention facility, as defined in section 18-8-203 (3), or while employed by the division in the department of human services responsible for youth services and who is a youth services counselor or is in the youth services worker classification series, and the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a peace officer, firefighter, or emergency medical service provider engaged in the performance of his or her duties, or a judge of a court of competent jurisdiction, or an officer of said court, or a person engaged in the performance of his or her duties while employed by or under contract with a detention facility or while employed by the division in the department of human services responsible for youth services.

(f.5)

(I) While lawfully confined in a detention facility within this state, a person with intent to infect, injure, harm, harass, annoy, threaten, or alarm a person in a detention facility whom the actor knows or reasonably should know to be an employee of a detention facility, causes such employee to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva, mucus, vomit, or any toxic, caustic, or hazardous material by any means, including but not limited to throwing, tossing, or expelling such fluid or material.

(h) With intent to infect, injure, or harm another person whom the actor knows or reasonably should know to be engaged in the performance of his or her duties as a peace officer, a firefighter, an emergency medical care provider, or an emergency medical service provider, he or she causes such person to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva, mucus, vomit, or any toxic, caustic, or hazardous material by any means, including by throwing, tossing, or expelling such fluid or material.

Penalty for Assaulting a Police Officer or Firefighter in Douglas County

In Douglas County and throughout Colorado, if you are convicted of Assault in the Second Degree after assaulting a police officer, firefighter, emergency medical care provider, or an emergency medical service provider, you will be facing the penalties of a class 4 felony. This means you could spend anywhere from 2 – 6 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections (prison) and fines between $2,000 and $500,000.

If it can be proved that the assault was committed upon a sudden heat of passion, caused by a serious and highly provoking act of the intended victim, your charges will be reduced to a class 6 felony.

Assault Isn’t Always Intentional in Parker, CO

Sometimes people in Parker, CO put up a fight when they are arrested. While this will typically be charged as Resisting Arrest, if a Parker Police Officer claims that you caused them pain when you Resisted Arrest, you could also be charged with Second Degree Assault. This offense applies if it is proven that you intentionally caused bodily injury to ANY person in an attempt to prevent the officer from doing their job.

It can be easy for you to be charged with Second Degree Assault in incidents involving a peace officer due to the broad definition of injury: “physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical or mental condition.”

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