Colorado § 18-1-709 Entrapment

Colorado Statutes

§ 18-1-709 — Entrapment

Colorado § 18-1-709

Title 18Criminal

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-1-709 (2026).

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The commission of acts which would otherwise
constitute an offense is not criminal if the defendant engaged in the proscribed
conduct because he was induced to do so by a law enforcement official or other
person acting under his direction, seeking to obtain evidence for the purpose of
prosecution, and the methods used to obtain that evidence were such as to create a
substantial risk that the acts would be committed by a person who, but for such
inducement, would not have conceived of or engaged in conduct of the sort
induced. Merely affording a person an opportunity to commit an offense is not
entrapment even though representations or inducements calculated to overcome
the offender's fear of detection are used.

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The commission of acts which would otherwise
constitute an offense is not criminal if the defendant engaged in the proscribed
conduct because he was induced to do so by a law enforcement official or other
person acting under his direction, seeking to obtain evidence for the purpose of
prosecution, and the methods used to obtain that evidence were such as to create a
substantial risk that the acts would be committed by a person who, but for such
inducement, would not have conceived of or engaged in conduct of the sort
induced. Merely affording a person an opportunity to commit an offense is not
entrapment even though representations or inducements calculated to overcome
the offender's fear of detection are used.