Colorado § 18-1.3-905 - Requirements before acceptance of a plea of guilty.
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§ 18-1.3-905. Requirements before acceptance of a plea of guilty.
Before the district court may accept a plea of guilty from any person charged with a sex offense, the court shall, in addition to any other requirement of law, advise the defendant that he or she may be committed to the custody of the department, including any penal institution under the jurisdiction of the department, as provided in section 18-1.3-904.
Source: L. 2002: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1431, § 2, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 16-13-204 as it existed prior to 2002.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. Since § 18-1.3-905 is similar to § 16-13-204 as it existed prior to the 2002 relocation of certain criminal sentencing provisions, relevant cases construing those provisions have been included in the annotations to this section.
Duty where defendant represented by counsel. The trial court only has a duty to advise those who plead guilty to a sex offense of the possibility of sentencing under the act and has no such duty where the defendant pleads guilty and is represented by counsel. People v. Medina, 193 Colo. 190, 564 P.2d 119 (1977).
Failure to expressly advise defendant of possibility of sentence of imprisonment under this section does not invalidate guilty plea. Wilson v. People, 708 P.2d 792 (Colo. 1985).
Advisement substantially complied with the requirement of this section. People v. Adrian, 701 P.2d 45 (Colo. 1985).
Applied in People v. Wilkerson, 192 Colo. 386, 559 P.2d 1107 (1977).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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