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Panel green-lights bill creating inchoate fentanyl offenses after legal clarification
Summary
House Bill 15-52 creates codified inchoate offenses (attempt, solicitation, conspiracy) for three fentanyl-related crimes passed earlier; sponsors said the change steps the inchoate offenses below the principal unclassified felonies, and the committee passed the bill after clarification and a brief recess.
State Representative Jimmy Gazzaway presented House Bill 15-52 to classify inchoate versions—attempt, solicitation and conspiracy—of three fentanyl-related offenses created in an earlier session: aggravated death by delivery, predatory marketing of fentanyl to minors, and trafficking of fentanyl.
Gazzaway said prosecutors had identified that the earlier Fentanyl Enforcement and Accountability Act did not explicitly address inchoate offenses, leaving solicitation and…
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