Colorado POST Study Guide Questions and Answers 2025/2026 Update 100% Correct.

Colorado POST Study Guide Questions
and Answers 2025/2026 Update 100%
Correct.



1. What are the two types of arrest?:
Custodial Non-custodial

2. What property crime can you use deadly force to defend against?: First
Degree Arson

3. 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

,4. 18-1-402. Presumption of Innocence: Every person is presumed innocent until
proved guilty

5. 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

6. 18-1-404 Preliminary hearing or waiver-dispositional hearing: Every
person ac-

cused 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 ottense, shall have the right to demand and receive a
preliminary hearing within a reasonable time to determine whether PC exists

7. How long for a speedy trial?: 180 days from the date of entry of a not guilty plea



18-1-405

8. How many jurors on a felony trial?: 12

9. How many jurors on a misdemeanor trial?: 6

10. 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

,11. If the issue involved in an affirmative defense is raised, then the guilt
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gof the defendant must be...: established beyond a reasonable doubt as to that issue as well as all
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other elements of the ottense
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12. Act: a bodily movement, and includes words and possession of property
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13. Conduct: an act or omission and its accompanying state of mind or, where relevant, a series of
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acts of omissions
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14. Criminal Negligence: through a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable
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person would exercise, he fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a result will occur or that a
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circumstance exists
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16. Intentionally: when his conscious objective is to cause the specific result proscribed by the statute
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defining the ottense
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17. Knowingly: when he is aware that his conduct is of such nature or that such circumstance exists
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when he is aware that his conduct is practically certain to cause the result
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18. Omission: a failure to perform an act as to which a duty of performance is imposed by law
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, 19. Recklessly: when he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a result will
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occur or that a circumstance exists
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20. Voluntary Act: an act performed consciously as a result of ettort or determination, and
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includes the possession of property if the actor was aware of his physical possession of property if the
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gactor was aware of his physical possession or control thereof for a suflcient period to have been able to
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terminate it
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21. Criminal Liability: the performance by a person of conduct which includes a voluntary act or the
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omission
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22. Strict Liability: when conduct alone is all that is required for the commission of a particular
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ottense
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(ex: DUI)
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23. Mental Culpability: when a culpable mental state on the part of the actor is required with
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respect to any material element of an ottense
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