Forgery charges are serious matters, as such a charge can result in a felony conviction. Forgery offenses also can involve complicated legal issues, requiring keen legal analysis. If an individual is convicted of a forgery offense, such a conviction can have life-long negative consequences. For these reasons, if you are facing a forgery offense allegation, it is important that you consult an experienced and knowledgeable Colorado defense attorney. At Decker and Jones, we have such attorneys equipped to advise and represent you in your case.
Depending on the circumstances of the case, a person can be charged with forgery if the individual, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, completes, alters, or utters a written instrument which is or purports to be, or which is calculated to become or to represent if completed:
Forgery is a class 5 felony.
Depending upon the circumstances of the case, a person can be charged with forgery if the individual, with intent to defraud, such person falsely makes, completes, alters, or utters a written instrument that is not:
Second-degree forgery is a class 1 misdemeanor.
Depending on the circumstances of the case, a person can be charged with use of a forged academic record if the individual – with intent to seek employment, admission to an institution of higher education, financial assistance from the institution itself or from other public or private sources of financial assistance – falsely makes, completes, alters, or utters a written instrument which is or purports to be, or is calculated to become or to represent if completed, a bona fide academic record of an institution of secondary or higher education.
Use of a forged academic record is a class 1 misdemeanor.
Depending on the circumstances of the case, a person can be charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument if the individual, with knowledge that it is forged and with intent to use to defraud, such person possesses any forged instrument.
Criminal possession of a forged instrument is a class 6 felony.
Depending upon the circumstances of the case, a person can be charged with criminal possession of a 2nd degree forged instrument if the individual, with knowledge that it is forged, and with intent to defraud, possesses any forged instrument which fits the classifications of 2nd-degree forgery.
Depending upon the circumstances of the case, a person can be charged with criminal possession of forgery devices if the individual:
Criminal possession of forgery devices is a class 6 felony.
Depending on the circumstances of the case, a person can be charged with criminal simulation if the individual, with intent to defraud, makes, alters, or represents any object in such fashion that it appears to have an antiquity, rarity, source or authorship, ingredient, or composition which it does not in fact have; or, utters, misrepresents, or possesses any such object.
Criminal simulation is a class 1 misdemeanor.