Disorderly Conduct is a common and easily charged crime in Fort Collins and Larimer County. A Colorado woman is understanding just how easily this crime is charged after she was assaulted and called 911 for help. According to the report, the woman heard noises outside her home since 3:30 a.m. and by 5:00 a.m. went outside to see what was going on. She saw a woman in a car driving on her street and then reversing back. She approached her and asked her to leave, but the woman in the car claimed she was delivering mail. When the woman told her that she didn’t believe her and was going to call the police, the woman in the car jumped out and began to hit the woman, while her car rolled away damaging two cars on the road. Neighbors heard the commotion and one neighbor came outside with his old, unloaded gun and told the woman in the car to stay in her car until police arrived. The woman called 911 and reported that she had been assaulted. The officers, clearly not caring to find out what really happened, ended up charging both women with Disorderly Conduct for fighting. The car woman even provided fake insurance information to the police. The man who came to the aid of his neighbor was charged with felony Menacing. Surveillance video provided to law enforcement show that the woman was in fact assaulted by the car woman and was not fighting, but, you know, the police just shrugged their shoulders and said that it’s the court’s issue now. With police work like this, it’s no wonder that the court system is overloaded with cases.
Fort Collins Disorderly Conduct Lawyer: Someone Calls 911 for Help? Charge Them with Disorderly Conduct!
The Larimer County, Colorado law definition of Disorderly Conduct – C.R.S. 18-9-106 – is:
(a) Makes a coarse and obviously offensive utterance, gesture, or display in a public place and the utterance, gesture, or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace; or
(b) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2000, p. 708, § 39, effective July 1, 2000.)
(c) Makes unreasonable noise in a public place or near a private residence that he has no right to occupy; or
(d) Fights with another in a public place except in an amateur or professional contest of athletic skill; or
(e) Not being a peace officer, discharges a firearm in a public place except when engaged in lawful target practice or hunting or the ritual discharge of blank ammunition cartridges as an attendee at a funeral for a deceased person who was a veteran of the armed forces of the United States; or
(f) Not being a peace officer, displays a deadly weapon, displays any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a deadly weapon, or represents verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm.
Based on the information provided in the article, the woman was likely charged under subsection (d). Under this subsection, Disorderly Conduct is a class 3 misdemeanor.
If you or someone you love has been charged with Disorderly Conduct, 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 initial consultation. Together, we can protect your future.
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