Call Now. Romeo and Juliet laws are statutes that provide certain protection from the harsh penalties of a sex -crime conviction for a consensual relationship when the participants involved are close in age, specifically minors. In most states, sex -crime laws have always been written stating that if a high school student engaged in consensual sexual activity with another of similar age, they could face a criminal conviction.

The provisions are also meant to prevent a sexual act occurring between partners with a few years age gap from being considered a criminal offense, thereby reducing the severity of penalties or punishments for the same.

Colorado’s dating laws come from CRS This is the same law that defines sexual assault.

According to this rule, the age of the younger person should not be less than half the age of the older person plus seven years, so that for example no one older than 65 should be in a relationship with anyone younger than 39 and a half, no one older than 22 should be in a relationship with anyone younger than 18, and no one under 14 years of age should be in a relationship at all From another point of view, the chart can be interpreted as saying that there should not be an age disparity of as much as five years unless the younger person has an age of 19 or more, a ten-year disparity should exist only if the younger person has an age of 24 or more, and a twenty-year disparity should occur only if the younger person has an age of 34 or more.

And people only slightly older than 14 should only be involved with those almost exactly the same age as themselves. To read the chart, go to the position along the x-axis which corresponds to your age, and the green range between the black and red lines directly above that position corresponds to the range of your partner’s ages which is deemed acceptable by the rule. The area between the blue and red lines shows where you are the older partner in the half-age-plus-seven calculation, while the area between the black and blue lines shows where you are the younger partner.

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