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
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, 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
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, 11. 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 ottense
12. Act: a bodily movement, and includes words and possession of property
13. Conduct: an act or omission and its accompanying state of mind or, where relevant, a series
of acts of omissions
14. 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
15. Culpable Mental State: Intentionally
Kno
win
gly
Reck
lessl
y
Criminal negligence
16. Intentionally: when his conscious objective is to cause the specific result proscribed by the statute
defining the ottense
17. 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
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
occur or that a circumstance exists
20. Voluntary Act: an act performed consciously as a result of ettort 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 suflcient period to have been
able to terminate it
21. 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
22. Strict Liability: when conduct alone is all that is required for the commission of a particular
ottense
(ex: DUI)
23. Mental Culpability: when a culpable mental state on the part of the actor is required with
respect to any material element of an ottense
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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
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, 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
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, 11. 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 ottense
12. Act: a bodily movement, and includes words and possession of property
13. Conduct: an act or omission and its accompanying state of mind or, where relevant, a series
of acts of omissions
14. 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
15. Culpable Mental State: Intentionally
Kno
win
gly
Reck
lessl
y
Criminal negligence
16. Intentionally: when his conscious objective is to cause the specific result proscribed by the statute
defining the ottense
17. 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
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
occur or that a circumstance exists
20. Voluntary Act: an act performed consciously as a result of ettort 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 suflcient period to have been
able to terminate it
21. 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
22. Strict Liability: when conduct alone is all that is required for the commission of a particular
ottense
(ex: DUI)
23. Mental Culpability: when a culpable mental state on the part of the actor is required with
respect to any material element of an ottense
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