My biggest problem with this? As a resident of Colorado, I have never heard of this law.
The article suggests that the law was passed like many Colorado criminal statutes exclusively in the state house, never being asked for, voted on, or necessarily seen by any Colorado resident who doesn't have direct involvement with the law. Furthermore, LexisNexis: "Official Publisher of the Colorado Revised Statutes" has no record of a C.R.S. 18-7-107 code even existing. (http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/Colorado/)
Regardless of subjective arguments of morality, how can people be charged with criminal laws that they have no way of knowing exist?
As a fellow resident, as a person, I agree about the access to law issue. Its such a problem that there is an entire political movement dedicated to the issue: the Free Access to Law Movement. (That website is not free; the notion that my rights[1] are worthless is quite offensive to me.)
Then 2014, then Criminal Law and Procedure and it is listed.
You could narrow things down and complain that the official public record of law is not updated fast enough, or that too much law is created for a single person to keep up with. But there is a pretty easy way to find ongoing changes to Colorado law.
[+] [-] h4pless|11 years ago|reply
The article suggests that the law was passed like many Colorado criminal statutes exclusively in the state house, never being asked for, voted on, or necessarily seen by any Colorado resident who doesn't have direct involvement with the law. Furthermore, LexisNexis: "Official Publisher of the Colorado Revised Statutes" has no record of a C.R.S. 18-7-107 code even existing. (http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/Colorado/)
Regardless of subjective arguments of morality, how can people be charged with criminal laws that they have no way of knowing exist?
[+] [-] esbranson|11 years ago|reply
[1] http://www.lexisnexis.com/terms/
[+] [-] maxerickson|11 years ago|reply
http://tornado.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/digest_of_bi...
Then 2014, then Criminal Law and Procedure and it is listed.
You could narrow things down and complain that the official public record of law is not updated fast enough, or that too much law is created for a single person to keep up with. But there is a pretty easy way to find ongoing changes to Colorado law.