Colorado Code
Part 11 - Sentencing
§ 19-2.5-1126. Sentencing - Special Offenders

(B) Upon adjudication as a violent juvenile offender, if the person is eighteen years of age or older on the date of the sentencing hearing, the court may sentence such person to the county jail or to a community correctional facility or program for a period not to exceed two years, if the person has been adjudicated a violent juvenile offender pursuant to this article 2.5 for acts committed prior to the person's eighteenth birthday.
(II) The court may commit a violent juvenile offender to the department of human services. The court may impose a minimum sentence during which the juvenile must not be released from a residential program without prior written approval of the court that made the commitment.



Source: L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 21-059), ch. 136, p. 660, § 2, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 19-2-908 as it existed prior to 2021.

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