Colorado § 19-2.5-202 - Consent to search.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 19-2.5-202 — Consent to search., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 19-2.5-202. Consent to search.
In determining the voluntariness of a juvenile's consent to a search or seizure, the court shall consider the totality of the circumstances.
Source: L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 21-059), ch. 136, p. 567, § 2, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 19-2-506 as it existed prior to 2021.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.
This section and former § 19-2-209 (4) (now § 19-2-803 (4)) contain proper test to measure validity of consent to search given by juvenile in noncustodial setting. People in Interest of S.J., 778 P.2d 1384 (Colo. 1989); People in Interest of R.A., 937 P.2d 731 (Colo. 1997).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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