Criminal Law

Resource 4 . 1 . 2

4 minutes

People v. Cowden

Laurent Sacharoff

As already noted, a legislature can use an element to divide lawful from criminal conduct, but it can also use elements to grade crimes. One of the most straightforward ways to grade crimes is based upon how bad the result is--defined by the result element in the statute. The Cowden case supplies a typical example. 

Colorado Supreme Court

735 P.2d 199

No. 85SA246

1987-04-13

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