Colorado POST Review Exam Questions and
Answers with Complete Solutions (Already
Passed A+) 2026/2027
• What property crime can you use deadly force to defend against? -✓✓First
Degree Arson
• Label each part of the following statute:
16-3-504(2.2)(a)(II)(A) -✓✓16 - Title
3 - Article
504 - Section
(2.2) - Subsection
(a) - Paragraphs
(II) - Sub-Paragraphs
(A) - Sub Sub-Paragraphs
• 18-1-402. Presumption of Innocence -✓✓Every person is presumed innocent
until proved guilty
• 18-1-403. Legal Assistance and Supporting Services -✓✓All indigent persons
who are charged with or held for the commission of a crime are entitled to legal
representation and supporting services at the state's expense
• 18-1-404 Preliminary hearing or waiver-dispositional hearing -✓✓Every person
accused of a class 1, 2, or 3 felony or level 1 or level 2 drug felony has the right to
demand and receive a preliminary hearing within a reasonable time to determine
whether PC exists
Only those persons charged with a class 4, 5, or 6 felony that requires mandatory
sentencing, or is charged with a crime of violence or sexual offense, shall have the
right to demand and receive a preliminary hearing within a reasonable time to
determine whether PC exists
,• How long for a speedy trial? -✓✓180 days from the date of entry of a not guilty
plea
18-1-405
• How many jurors on a felony trial? -✓✓12
• How many jurors on a misdemeanor trial? -✓✓6
• 18-1-407 Affirmative Defense -✓✓means that unless the state's evidence raises
the issue involving the alleged defense, the defendant, to raise the issue, shall
present some credible evidence on that issue
• If the issue involved in an affirmative defense is raised, then the guilt of the
defendant must be... -✓✓established beyond a reasonable doubt as to that issue as
well as all other elements of the offense
• Act -✓✓a bodily movement, and includes words and possession of property
• Conduct -✓✓an act or omission and its accompanying state of mind or, where
relevant, a series of acts of omissions
• Criminal Negligence -✓✓through a gross deviation from the standard of care that
a reasonable person would exercise, he fails to perceive a substantial and
unjustifiable risk that a result will occur or that a circumstance exists
• Culpable Mental State -✓✓Intentionally
Knowingly
Recklessly
Criminal negligence
,• Intentionally -✓✓when his conscious objective is to cause the specific result
proscribed by the statute defining the offense
• Knowingly -✓✓when he is aware that his conduct is of such nature or that such
circumstance exists
when he is aware that his conduct is practically certain to cause the result
• Omission -✓✓a failure to perform an act as to which a duty of performance is
imposed by law
• Recklessly -✓✓when he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable
risk that a result will occur or that a circumstance exists
• Voluntary Act -✓✓an act performed consciously as a result of effort or
determination, and includes the possession of property if the actor was aware of his
physical possession of property if the actor was aware of his physical possession or
control thereof for a sufficient period to have been able to terminate it
• Criminal Liability -✓✓the performance by a person of conduct which includes a
voluntary act or the omission to perform an act which he is physically capable of
performing
• Strict Liability -✓✓when conduct alone is all that is required for the commission
of a particular offense
(ex: DUI)
• Mental Culpability -✓✓when a culpable mental state on the part of the actor is
required with respect to any material element of an offense
(ex: Murder)
, • 18-1-603 Complicity -✓✓a person is legally accountable as principal for the
behavior of another constituting a criminal offense if, with the intent to promote or
facilitate the commission of the offense, he or she aids, abets, advises, or
encourages the other person in planning or committing the offense
*basically if they helped out in the crime
• 18-1-702 Choice of Evils -✓✓Conduct which would otherwise constitute an
offense is justifiable and not criminal when it is necessary as an emergency
measure to avoid an imminent public or private injury which is about to occur
(Ex: you commit a crime to stop a crime)
(Ex: you shatter a car window to protect a baby in a hot car)
• Who are those that are covered under the use of physical force - special relations
18-1-703? -✓✓1. Parent, guardian, or other person entrusted with the care and
supervision of a minor or incompetent person, or teacher
2. Detentions staff
3. Common Carrier
4. Preventing someone from suicide
5. Licensed physician or nurse
• 18-1-704 Use of physical force in defense of a person -✓✓a person is justified in
using physical force upon another person in order to defend himself or a third
person from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful
physical force by that other person, and he may use a degree of force which he
reasonably believes to be necessary for that purpose
• When can you use deadly physical force in the defense of a person per 18-1-707?
-✓✓If a person believes a lesser degree of force is inadequate and:
-he or another person is in imminent danger of being killed or of receiving great
bodily injury
Answers with Complete Solutions (Already
Passed A+) 2026/2027
• What property crime can you use deadly force to defend against? -✓✓First
Degree Arson
• Label each part of the following statute:
16-3-504(2.2)(a)(II)(A) -✓✓16 - Title
3 - Article
504 - Section
(2.2) - Subsection
(a) - Paragraphs
(II) - Sub-Paragraphs
(A) - Sub Sub-Paragraphs
• 18-1-402. Presumption of Innocence -✓✓Every person is presumed innocent
until proved guilty
• 18-1-403. Legal Assistance and Supporting Services -✓✓All indigent persons
who are charged with or held for the commission of a crime are entitled to legal
representation and supporting services at the state's expense
• 18-1-404 Preliminary hearing or waiver-dispositional hearing -✓✓Every person
accused of a class 1, 2, or 3 felony or level 1 or level 2 drug felony has the right to
demand and receive a preliminary hearing within a reasonable time to determine
whether PC exists
Only those persons charged with a class 4, 5, or 6 felony that requires mandatory
sentencing, or is charged with a crime of violence or sexual offense, shall have the
right to demand and receive a preliminary hearing within a reasonable time to
determine whether PC exists
,• How long for a speedy trial? -✓✓180 days from the date of entry of a not guilty
plea
18-1-405
• How many jurors on a felony trial? -✓✓12
• How many jurors on a misdemeanor trial? -✓✓6
• 18-1-407 Affirmative Defense -✓✓means that unless the state's evidence raises
the issue involving the alleged defense, the defendant, to raise the issue, shall
present some credible evidence on that issue
• If the issue involved in an affirmative defense is raised, then the guilt of the
defendant must be... -✓✓established beyond a reasonable doubt as to that issue as
well as all other elements of the offense
• Act -✓✓a bodily movement, and includes words and possession of property
• Conduct -✓✓an act or omission and its accompanying state of mind or, where
relevant, a series of acts of omissions
• Criminal Negligence -✓✓through a gross deviation from the standard of care that
a reasonable person would exercise, he fails to perceive a substantial and
unjustifiable risk that a result will occur or that a circumstance exists
• Culpable Mental State -✓✓Intentionally
Knowingly
Recklessly
Criminal negligence
,• Intentionally -✓✓when his conscious objective is to cause the specific result
proscribed by the statute defining the offense
• Knowingly -✓✓when he is aware that his conduct is of such nature or that such
circumstance exists
when he is aware that his conduct is practically certain to cause the result
• Omission -✓✓a failure to perform an act as to which a duty of performance is
imposed by law
• Recklessly -✓✓when he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable
risk that a result will occur or that a circumstance exists
• Voluntary Act -✓✓an act performed consciously as a result of effort or
determination, and includes the possession of property if the actor was aware of his
physical possession of property if the actor was aware of his physical possession or
control thereof for a sufficient period to have been able to terminate it
• Criminal Liability -✓✓the performance by a person of conduct which includes a
voluntary act or the omission to perform an act which he is physically capable of
performing
• Strict Liability -✓✓when conduct alone is all that is required for the commission
of a particular offense
(ex: DUI)
• Mental Culpability -✓✓when a culpable mental state on the part of the actor is
required with respect to any material element of an offense
(ex: Murder)
, • 18-1-603 Complicity -✓✓a person is legally accountable as principal for the
behavior of another constituting a criminal offense if, with the intent to promote or
facilitate the commission of the offense, he or she aids, abets, advises, or
encourages the other person in planning or committing the offense
*basically if they helped out in the crime
• 18-1-702 Choice of Evils -✓✓Conduct which would otherwise constitute an
offense is justifiable and not criminal when it is necessary as an emergency
measure to avoid an imminent public or private injury which is about to occur
(Ex: you commit a crime to stop a crime)
(Ex: you shatter a car window to protect a baby in a hot car)
• Who are those that are covered under the use of physical force - special relations
18-1-703? -✓✓1. Parent, guardian, or other person entrusted with the care and
supervision of a minor or incompetent person, or teacher
2. Detentions staff
3. Common Carrier
4. Preventing someone from suicide
5. Licensed physician or nurse
• 18-1-704 Use of physical force in defense of a person -✓✓a person is justified in
using physical force upon another person in order to defend himself or a third
person from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful
physical force by that other person, and he may use a degree of force which he
reasonably believes to be necessary for that purpose
• When can you use deadly physical force in the defense of a person per 18-1-707?
-✓✓If a person believes a lesser degree of force is inadequate and:
-he or another person is in imminent danger of being killed or of receiving great
bodily injury
