Colorado § 16-8-101 Insanity defined - offenses committed before July 1, 1995

Colorado Statutes

§ 16-8-101 — Insanity defined - offenses committed before July 1, 1995

Colorado § 16-8-101

Title 16Criminal

Art.Insanity - Release

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Bluebook

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 16-8-101 (2026).

Text

(1)The applicable test of insanity shall be, and the jury shall be so instructed: A person who is so diseased or defective in mind at the time of the commission of the act as to be incapable of distinguishing right from wrong with respect to that act is not accountable. But care should be taken not to confuse such mental disease or defect with moral obliquity, mental depravity, or passion growing out of anger, revenge, hatred, or other motives, and kindred evil conditions, for when the act is induced by any of these causes the person is accountable to the law..

(2)Repealed.

(3)This section applies to offenses committed before July 1, 1995.

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(1) The
applicable test of insanity shall be, and the jury shall be so instructed: A person
who is so diseased or defective in mind at the time of the commission of the act as
to be incapable of distinguishing right from wrong with respect to that act is not
accountable. But care should be taken not to confuse such mental disease or
defect with moral obliquity, mental depravity, or passion growing out of anger,
revenge, hatred, or other motives, and kindred evil conditions, for when the act is
induced by any of these causes the person is accountable to the law..

(2) Repealed.

(3) This section applies to offenses committed before July 1, 1995.

Legislative History

Source: L. 72: R&RE, p. 225, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 39-8-101. L. 83: Entire section amended, p. 672, � 1, effective July 1. L. 84: (1) amended, p. 490, � 1, effective February 6. L. 95: (3) added, p. 71, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2025: (2) repealed and (3) amended, (HB 25-1058), ch. 15, p. 38, � 1, effective August 6.