§ 18-3-301 — First degree kidnapping

Colorado § 18-3-301

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 18: Criminal
• Art.: Offenses Against the Person

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(1) Any person who does any of the
following acts with the intent thereby to force the victim or any other person to
make any concession or give up anything of value in order to secure a release of a
person under the offender's actual or apparent control commits first degree
kidnapping:

(a) Forcibly seizes and carries any person from one place to another; or

(b) Entices or persuades any person to go from one place to another; or

(c) Imprisons or forcibly secretes any person.

(2) Whoever commits first degree kidnapping is guilty of a class 1 felony if
the person kidnapped shall have suffered bodily injury; but no person convicted of
first degree kidnapping shall suffer the death penalty if the person kidnapped was
liberated alive prior to the conviction of the kidnapper.

(3) Whoever commits first degree kidnapping commits a class 2 felony if,
prior to his conviction, the person kidnapped was liberated unharmed.

Legislative History

Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 421, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 40-3-301.