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“let's talk about domestic violence charges in colorado the first thing to understand with domestic violence charges is there is no charge of domestic violence that can just be applied there has to be an underlying criminal offense in order for domestic violence to be applied to it in other words the charge of domestic violence is what we call a sentence enhancer or an enhancement”
“you can't have just one blanket domestic violence charge it has to be applied to another offense typically what we see is we see something like an assault charged as an act of domestic violence so in order for there to be a dv charge as we typically hear it heard there has to first be a criminal act then there has to be an intimate relationship between the two people involved in the act”
“now the issue is there are any number of things that can be charged as an act of domestic violence there's no limitation a domestic violence enhancement is applied anytime a crime is committed by one person against another person with whom they are in an intimate relationship we'll delve a little bit further into what that intimate relationship means in later videos but the first thing to understand is there's no blanket charge of domestic violence domestic violence is a sentence enhancer that is applied to underlying criminal charges”
“the charge of domestic violence is what we call a sentence enhancer or an enhancement you can't have just one blanket domestic violence charge it has to be applied to another offense”
“there has to first be a criminal act then there has to be an intimate relationship between the two people involved in the act”
“there are any number of things that can be charged as an act of domestic violence there's no limitation”