Menacing is charged in Fort Collins and Larimer County when a person is accused of putting another in fear of serious bodily injury. With the instantaneous access we have to news stories, we live in a time where anyone accused of anything can be blasted out to the world. Because of this, most people are assumed to be guilty in the eyes of the public. News stories are presented when a person has been charged or arrested for a crime, giving detail to all the allegations. Simply, they are airing all the person’s dirty laundry, whether what they are putting out there is true or not. But apparently, this does not apply to EVERYONE. The chief judge for Summit, Clear Creak, Eagle and Lake counties was recently charged with felony Menacing, but the details of why have been suppressed. DAs and law enforcement usually love tipping off the media about criminal cases and arrests, but in this case the DA requested the court suppress the records because the judge is a ‘prominent member’ of the community. So, a person’s status is what determines whether their dirty laundry gets aired or not? Sounds unfair to me.
Menacing Attorney in Fort Collins: Definition of Menacing in Colorado
The Colorado law definition of Menacing – C.R.S. 18-3-206 – is:
(a) By the use of a deadly weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a deadly weapon; or
(b) By the person representing verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a deadly weapon.
While we have no details about the judge’s case, we do know that he was charged with a felony, so there must have been a deadly weapon or something resembling a deadly weapon involved in the situation.
Sentence for Menacing in Loveland and Estes Park
In Fort Collins, Loveland, and Estes Park, Menacing can be charged as a class 3 misdemeanor or a class 5 felony. The class 3 misdemeanor Menacing is punishable by up to 6 months in the Larimer County Jail. The class 5 felony Menacing is punishable by 1 to 3 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections.