State of Colorado v. Dat Troung

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with harrassment.

Dat Troung, a 10-year veteran, was accused to harassment for striking a handcuffed teenager on November 3, 2023.



Truong was charged with misdemeanor harassment after he struck a 17-year-old boy whose hands were cuffed behind his back inside a police cruiser on the night of Nov. 3, 2023, near the intersection of East Colfax Avenue and Interstate 225 in Aurora.



Title 18 Colorado Criminal Code Sections 18-1-101 - 18-26-102 provides:



(1) A person commits harassment if, with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm another person, he or she:

(a) Strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise touches a person or subjects him to physical contact; or

(b) In a public place directs obscene language or makes an obscene gesture to or at another person; or

(c) Follows a person in or about a public place; or

(d) Repealed.

(e) Directly or indirectly initiates communication with a person or directs language toward another person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, telephone network, data network, text message, instant message, computer, computer network, computer system, or other interactive electronic medium in a manner intended to harass or threaten bodily injury or property damage, or makes any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal by telephone, computer, computer network, computer system, or other interactive electronic medium that is obscene; or

(f) Makes a telephone call or causes a telephone to ring repeatedly, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate conversation; or

(g) Makes repeated communications at inconvenient hours that invade the privacy of another and interfere in the use and enjoyment of another's home or private residence or other private property; or

(h) Repeatedly insults, taunts, challenges, or makes communications in offensively coarse language to, another in a manner likely to provoke a violent or disorderly response.

Defendant was found guilty.