Three Strikes and Habitual Offender Laws in Colorado

Colorado's habitual criminal law has three tiers. A person convicted of a class 1 or 2 felony, a level 1 drug felony or a class 3 felony crime of violence who has two prior convictions for such offenses gets life imprisonment with no parole for at least 40 years. A person convicted of a class 1 to 5 felony or level 1 to 3 drug felony who has two prior felony convictions within 10 years gets three times the maximum of the presumptive range for that class (48 years for a level 1 drug felony). A person convicted of any felony with three prior felony convictions gets four times the maximum of the presumptive range (64 years for a level 1 drug felony). Prior convictions must come from separately brought and tried cases arising from separate criminal episodes, and some level 4 drug possession felonies are excluded.