Castle Rock Criminal Extortion Attorney

Man Threatens to Post Nudes to Get Woman to Talk to Him

In Castle Rock and Douglas County, Colorado Extortion is charged when a person threatens another to get them to do something against their will and through the threats does (or threatens to do) something illegal. A man would likely be facing Extortion charges, along with the Posting a Private Image for Harassment (Revenge Porn), after he threatened to release nude images in order to get his ex-girlfriend to talk to him. According to the report, the man had posted some of the images on Snapchat and then threatened to post more until the woman would talk to him. Apparently, instead of calling him she called the police and he ended up arrested.

Douglas County Criminal Extortion Lawyer: Definition of Extortion

The Douglas County, Colorado law definition of Criminal Extortion – C.R.S. 18-3-207 – is:

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(1) A person commits criminal extortion if:

(a) The person, without legal authority and with the intent to induce another person against that other person's will to perform an act or to refrain from performing a lawful act, makes a substantial threat to confine or restrain, cause economic hardship or bodily injury to, or damage the property or reputation of, the threatened person or another person; and

(b) The person threatens to cause the results described in paragraph (a) of this subsection (1) by:

(I) Performing or causing an unlawful act to be performed; or

(II) Invoking action by a third party, including, but not limited to, the state or any of its political subdivisions, whose interests are not substantially related to the interests pursued by the person making the threat.”

Because the man was trying to get the woman to do something against her will (call him) and threatened to do something illegal (post private images online) which would damage her reputation, he would be facing the Extortion charge.

Sentence for Criminal Extortion in Highlands Ranch and Parker

In Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, and Parker, Criminal Extortion is a class 4 felony, which is punishable by 2 to 6 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections and up to $500,000 in fines.