Helping someone plan or carryout a crime, even if you didn’t actually commit the crime, is charged as Criminal Conspiracy in Fort Collins and Larimer County. A man is facing this crime, along with Attempted Murder after telling his girlfriend to kill her infant niece. According to the report, he had texted and Facebook messaged his girlfriend that she needed to kill the baby and discussing the plan. In response, the girlfriend crushed up painkillers and put them in the baby’s bottle. The woman’s mother saw the messages and was able to intervene before the baby was injured. Both tried to flee, but were caught in another state and criminally charged.
Larimer County Conspiracy to Commit a Crime Attorney: Definition of Criminal Conspiracy in Boulder
The Larimer and Boulder County, Colorado law definition of Conspiracy – C.R.S. 18-2-201 – is:
Because the man had encouraged the woman to commit a murder, and helped her plan it out, he is charged with Conspiracy. In cases like these, it doesn’t matter that the man never crushed up the pills and put them in the baby’s bottle himself. Simply discussing it with the intent to help promote the crime is enough.
Sentence for Conspiracy in Loveland and Estes Park
Criminal Conspiracy is charged as a felony or misdemeanor depending on initial crime:
- Conspiracy to commit a class 1 felony is a class 2 felony;
- Conspiracy to commit a class 2 felony is a class 3 felony;
- Conspiracy to commit a class 3 felony is a class 4 felony;
- Conspiracy to commit a class 4 felony is a class 5 felony;
- Conspiracy to commit a class 5 or 6 felony is a class 6 felony;
- Conspiracy to commit a class 1 misdemeanor is a class 2 misdemeanor;
- Conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor other than a class 1 misdemeanor is a class 3 misdemeanor.
If you or someone you love has been charged with Criminal Conspiracy, be smart, exercise your right to remain silent, and contact the best criminal defense attorneys from the O’Malley Law Office at 970-658-0007 to schedule your free consultation or set up a jail visit. Together, we can protect your future.
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