Disorderly Conduct is charged for various reasons in Greeley and Weld County including making too much noise or being offensive in public. A man was recently charged with this crime after he was drunk and acting up at a polling location. According to the report, the man had gone to his local polling site (an elementary school) and started acting up while he was asked to verify his name and address. Then when he was in the cafeteria, he was loud and disrupting other voters. He did not fill out the ballot correctly, crumpled it up at one point and then became angry when the machine wouldn’t accept it. A polling worker had to chase the man, who later admitted he had vodka in the bottle he was carrying. Police were called and the man was arrested.
Weld County Disorderly Conduct Lawyer: Definition of Disorderly Conduct in Colorado
The Weld County, Colorado law definition of Disorderly Conduct – C.R.S. 18-9-106 – is:
(a) Makes a coarse and obviously offensive utterance, gesture, or display in a public place and the utterance, gesture, or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace; or
(b) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2000, p. 708, § 39, effective July 1, 2000.)
(c) Makes unreasonable noise in a public place or near a private residence that he has no right to occupy; or
(d) Fights with another in a public place except in an amateur or professional contest of athletic skill; or
(e) Not being a peace officer, discharges a firearm in a public place except when engaged in lawful target practice or hunting or the ritual discharge of blank ammunition cartridges as an attendee at a funeral for a deceased person who was a veteran of the armed forces of the United States; or
(f) Not being a peace officer, displays a real or simulated firearm, displays any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a firearm, or represents verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a firearm in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm and does alarm another person.
Likely, the man’s alleged actions would fall under subsection (a) and subsection (c).
Penalty for Disorderly Conduct in Firestone: A Criminal Defense Attorney Explains
In Firestone, Colorado, Disorderly Conduct charged under subsection (a) or (c) is a petty offense. The penalty for a petty offense is up to 10 days in the Weld County Jail and up to $300 in fines.
If you or someone you love has been charged with Disorderly Conduct, be smart, exercise your right to remain silent, and contact the best criminal defense attorneys from the O’Malley Law Office at 970-616-6009 to schedule a free initial consultation. Together, we can protect your future.
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