in Interest of N.D.O , 2021 COA 100 ( 2021 )


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    SUMMARY
    July 22, 2021
    2021COA100
    No. 20CA0214, People in Interest of N.D.O. — Juvenile Court —
    Delinquency — Special Offenders — Violent Juvenile Offender;
    Criminal Law — Complicity
    In this appeal by the prosecution, a division of the court of
    appeals concludes that complicitor liability can support a crime of
    violence finding — a sentence enhancer — in juvenile delinquency
    proceedings. Because the trial court instructed the jury to the
    contrary, the division disapproves the court’s ruling.
    The division also concludes that the jury’s general verdicts
    finding the juvenile guilty of aggravated robbery did not establish
    that he committed a crime of violence. Accordingly, the trial court
    was not required to adjudicate the juvenile a violent juvenile
    offender, and the sentence imposed was not illegal.
    COLORADO COURT OF APPEALS                                       2021COA100
    Court of Appeals No. 20CA0214
    Jefferson County District Court No. 18JD483
    Honorable Gregory G. Lyman, Judge
    The People of the State of Colorado,
    Petitioner-Appellant,
    In the Interest of N.D.O.,
    Juvenile-Appellee.
    RULING DISAPPROVED AND SENTENCE AFFIRMED
    Division IV
    Opinion by JUDGE NAVARRO
    Brown and Martinez*, JJ., concur
    Announced July 22, 2021
    Peter A. Weir, District Attorney, Colleen R. Lamb, Deputy District Attorney,
    Golden, Colorado, for Petitioner-Appellant
    Nicole M. Mooney, Alternate Defense Counsel, Denver, Colorado, for Juvenile-
    Appellee
    *Sitting by assignment of the Chief Justice under provisions of Colo. Const. art.
    VI, § 5(3), and § 24-51-1105, C.R.S. 2020.
    ¶1    In the proceedings below, the juvenile, N.D.O., was
    adjudicated delinquent. The prosecution raises two arguments on
    appeal. First, the prosecution argues that the trial court incorrectly
    stated the law by instructing the jury that complicitor liability
    cannot support a crime of violence finding, which is a sentence
    enhancer. Applying the combined force of our supreme court’s
    decisions in People v. Swanson, 
    638 P.2d 45
     (Colo. 1981), and
    People in Interest of B.D., 
    2020 CO 87
    , we agree with the
    prosecution and disapprove the court’s ruling as to that instruction.
    Second, the prosecution contends that N.D.O.’s sentence is illegal
    and asks us to remand with directions to sentence him as a violent
    juvenile offender. We deny that request because N.D.O.’s sentence
    is not illegal given the jury’s findings.
    I.    Factual and Procedural History
    ¶2    Several teenagers stole a car and committed armed robberies
    of four gas stations. The prosecution alleged that N.D.O. was the
    getaway driver for two other teenagers who entered the stores and
    demanded, at gunpoint, that the clerks empty the registers.
    ¶3    The prosecution filed a petition in delinquency charging
    N.D.O. with (1) four counts of aggravated robbery with a
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    confederate; (2) four counts of aggravated robbery while possessing
    any article used or fashioned in a manner as to convince a person
    that it is a deadly weapon; and (3) one count of conspiracy to
    commit aggravated robbery while possessing any article used or
    fashioned as a deadly weapon. See § 18-4-302(1)(c)-(d), C.R.S.
    2020 (aggravated robbery); § 18-2-201, C.R.S. 2020 (conspiracy).
    The petition also alleged that N.D.O. was a violent juvenile offender
    under section 19-2-516(3), C.R.S. 2020, because the robberies
    involved the use, or possession and threatened use, of a deadly
    weapon (i.e., they were crimes of violence), see § 18-1.3-
    406(2)(a)(I)(A), C.R.S. 2020.1
    ¶4    N.D.O. exercised his statutory right to a jury trial. § 19-2-
    107(1), C.R.S. 2020. At trial, the prosecution did not allege or
    present evidence that N.D.O. personally entered the gas stations.
    Instead, the prosecution argued that he committed the aggravated
    robbery offenses as a complicitor.
    ¶5    The trial court instructed the jury on the elements of
    complicitor liability and instructed the jury that complicitor liability
    1In addition, the petition charged N.D.O. with possession of a
    handgun by a juvenile and aggravated motor vehicle theft. Neither
    of those adjudications is pertinent to, or affected by, this appeal.
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    could apply to the aggravated robbery offenses. In addition, on
    each verdict form for the aggravated robbery and conspiracy counts,
    the court submitted the following interrogatory: “Did the juvenile
    use, or possess and threaten the use of, a deadly weapon?” During
    deliberations, the jury asked, “Does complicity apply to the yes/no
    [deadly weapon] question on the Aggravated Robbery charges?” The
    prosecutor asked the court to instruct the jury that complicitor
    liability applied to the deadly weapon interrogatories. The court
    decided that the original instructions did not answer the jury’s
    question and, thus, a supplemental instruction was necessary. But
    the court rejected the prosecutor’s position and told the jury instead
    that, while complicitor liability applied to a substantive offense, the
    “theory of complicity” did not apply to the deadly weapon
    interrogatories.
    ¶6    The jury found N.D.O. guilty on all counts, but the jury found
    that he did not use, or possess and threaten the use of, a deadly
    weapon to commit any offense. The trial court adjudicated N.D.O.
    delinquent and sentenced him to two years of probation, with
    forty-five days of detention as a condition thereof.
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    II.   The Complicity Instruction
    ¶7    N.D.O. does not appeal the delinquency judgment. The
    prosecution, however, appeals the trial court’s decision to instruct
    the jury that the theory of complicity did not apply to the deadly
    weapon interrogatories relevant to whether N.D.O was a violent
    juvenile offender. The prosecution asks us to disapprove the court’s
    instruction. See § 19-2-903(2), C.R.S. 2020 (“The prosecution in a
    delinquency case may appeal any decision of the trial court as
    provided in section 16-12-102, C.R.S.”); § 16-12-102(1), C.R.S.
    2020 (“The prosecution may appeal any decision of a court in a
    criminal case upon any question of law.”).
    ¶8    Under the Colorado Children’s Code, “a trial court normally
    has broad discretion to craft a sentence it deems appropriate for a
    particular [juvenile] offender.” A.S. v. People, 
    2013 CO 63
    , ¶ 15.
    But for certain classes of juveniles called “special offenders,” the
    Colorado Children’s Code imposes mandatory sentences. See § 19-
    2-908, C.R.S. 2020. One such class includes a “[v]iolent juvenile
    offender,” a person who “is adjudicated a juvenile delinquent for a
    delinquent act that constitutes a crime of violence as defined in
    section 18-1.3-406(2).” § 19-2-516(3). A violent juvenile offender
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    “shall be placed or committed out of the home for not less than one
    year,” with an exception not applicable here. § 19-2-908(1)(c)(I)(A).
    A trial court has no jurisdiction to depart from this sentence absent
    a statutory exception. People in Interest of M.M.O.P., 
    873 P.2d 24
    ,
    26 (Colo. App. 1993).
    ¶9      As noted, the petition alleged that N.D.O. was a violent
    juvenile offender because he committed a delinquent act that
    constituted a crime of violence as defined in section 18-1.3-
    406(2)(a)(I)(A). That provision defines aggravated robbery as a crime
    of violence if the offense was “committed, conspired to be
    committed, or attempted to be committed by a person during which,
    or in the immediate flight therefrom, the person: (A) [u]sed, or
    possessed and threatened the use of, a deadly weapon.” § 18-1.3-
    406(2)(a)(I)(A) & (2)(a)(II)(F).
    ¶ 10    The prosecution asks whether a trier of fact may find that a
    juvenile’s delinquent act constituted a crime of violence (e.g., the act
    involved the use, or possession and threatened use, of a deadly
    weapon) under a complicity theory. See § 18-1-603, C.R.S. 2020
    (defining complicity). We answer that question “yes” and thus
    disapprove the trial court’s ruling and supplemental instruction.
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    A.     Invited Error
    ¶ 11   N.D.O. argues that the prosecution invited the alleged error by
    tendering the original complicity instructions without specifying
    that complicitor liability applied to the deadly weapon
    interrogatories. We disagree.
    ¶ 12   The invited error doctrine prevents a party from complaining
    on appeal of an error that he or she has invited or injected into the
    case. People v. Rediger, 
    2018 CO 32
    , ¶ 34. N.D.O. is correct that a
    party can invite an error by tendering an erroneous instruction.
    See 
    id.
     And, while the record does not make entirely clear who
    tendered the original instructions, the prosecution does not dispute
    N.D.O.’s claim that it submitted them. The original instructions
    specifically applied complicity to the aggravated robbery charges
    (among others) but not to the deadly weapon interrogatories. The
    original instructions did not follow the advice of the Model Jury
    Instructions, which counsel that, in cases involving complicity, it
    may be appropriate to modify a crime of violence interrogatory by
    adding the words “or a complicitor” when asking if “the defendant”
    used, or possessed and threatened the use of, a deadly weapon.
    COLJI-Crim. ch. 1.3 cmt. 2 (2020).
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    ¶ 13   As a result, the original instructions were, at the very least,
    ambiguous as to whether complicity applied to the deadly weapon
    interrogatories. We thus understand why the jury asked its
    question and why the trial court found that the original instructions
    did not answer the question. Still, the jury’s question gave the
    court and the parties the opportunity to clarify the original
    instructions and to correct any erroneous impression left by them.
    ¶ 14   The error asserted on appeal is not in the original complicity
    instructions but in the court’s supplemental instruction answering
    the jury’s question. Because the prosecution objected to that
    supplemental instruction, we do not discern invited error, and we
    turn to the merits.
    B.   The Merits
    ¶ 15   In our view, the combined force of two decisions from our
    supreme court compels the conclusion that a juvenile can be held
    accountable under a complicity theory for a crime of violence.
    ¶ 16   Under a complicity theory, “[a] person is legally accountable as
    principal for the behavior of another constituting a criminal offense
    if, with the intent to promote or facilitate the commission of the
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    offense, he or she aids, abets, advises, or encourages the other
    person in planning or committing the offense.” § 18-1-603.
    ¶ 17   In People v. Swanson, 
    638 P.2d 45
     (Colo. 1981), the supreme
    court decided that complicity liability applied to a substantially
    similar version of the crime of violence statute. That is, the court
    rejected the notion that the crime of violence statute applied “only to
    a defendant who personally used or possessed and threatened to
    use a deadly weapon during the commission of a crime.” 
    Id. at 49
    (citing § 16-11-309(2), C.R.S. 1973 (1978 Repl. Vol. 8)). The court
    emphasized that “[t]he mandatory sentence for conviction of [a]
    crime of violence is based on a recognition of the increased potential
    for harm arising from the manner in which the crime was
    committed” and “[t]his heightened danger is present regardless of
    which robber held the gun.” Id. at 50. The court thus concluded
    that “an accessory to [a] crime of violence may be charged, tried and
    punished as a principal.” Id. (holding that, “[b]ecause we determine
    the principles of complicity apply to a crime of violence,” the trial
    court’s contrary instruction was erroneous).
    ¶ 18   In People in Interest of B.D., 
    2020 CO 87
    , the supreme court
    applied the complicity theory in the juvenile context. Several boys
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    broke into two homes, one of which was owned by a man
    considered an “at-risk” victim. 
    Id. at ¶ 1
    . While B.D. waited
    outside, the man returned home and happened upon another boy
    stealing from his home. 
    Id.
     B.D. was adjudicated delinquent, on a
    complicity theory, for theft in the presence of an at-risk victim. 
    Id. at ¶ 3
    . B.D. challenged the sufficiency of the evidence on the
    ground that, to prove complicity liability, the prosecution had to
    show that he was aware that the at-risk victim was present during
    the theft, yet no such evidence was presented. 
    Id. at ¶¶ 2, 5, 12
    .
    Rebuffing this challenge, the supreme court held that, because the
    at-risk victim’s presence was merely a sentence enhancer of the
    theft offense (not an element), B.D. did not have to be aware of the
    at-risk adult’s presence to be subject to this sentence enhancer. 
    Id. at ¶¶ 2, 15, 26
    .
    ¶ 19   In so holding, the court also rejected B.D.’s argument that,
    because the complicity statute makes a complicitor accountable
    only for the principal’s criminal offense, a complicitor cannot be
    subject to sentence enhancers given that they are not part of the
    offense. 
    Id. at ¶ 16
    . The court explained that “complicity is a
    theory of liability, not an offense” and “once a defendant is found
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    guilty of the underlying offense, he ‘is legally accountable as
    principal . . . for [the] criminal offense,’ including any sentence
    enhancers related to the nature of the offense.” 
    Id. at ¶ 16
     (quoting
    § 18-1-603) (emphasis added). Accordingly, the complicity statute
    put “B.D. on equal footing with his principal regarding the
    circumstances accompanying the commission of the offense, which
    then allow[ed] any relevant sentence enhancers to apply by their
    own force.” Id.
    ¶ 20   Applying B.D. and Swanson to this case, we disapprove the
    trial court’s supplemental instruction as to the crime of violence
    sentence enhancer.2 Neither the complicity statute nor the
    Children’s Code indicates that complicitor liability applies any
    differently in juvenile delinquency proceedings than it does in adult
    criminal proceedings. And our supreme court has applied the
    complicity statute to a juvenile in the same way it applies to an
    adult. See B.D., ¶ 16. Because complicitor liability can support a
    crime of violence finding in the adult context, see Swanson, 638
    P.2d at 49, complicitor liability can support a crime of violence
    2We acknowledge that the trial court did not have the benefit of the
    decision in People in Interest of B.D., 
    2020 CO 87
    .
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    finding in the juvenile context. In other words, the complicity
    statute puts the juvenile complicitor on equal footing with the
    principal regarding the circumstances accompanying the
    commission of the offense, including those making the offense a
    crime of violence. See B.D., ¶ 16.
    ¶ 21   N.D.O.’s arguments do not convince us otherwise. He argues
    that the plain language of the violent juvenile offender statute
    applies only to the juvenile’s own conduct, and not to another’s
    conduct — especially not to the conduct of any adult involved in the
    crime. (One teenager who robbed the stores in this case was
    eighteen.) N.D.O. notes that section 19-2-516(3) addresses an
    adjudication “for a delinquent act that constitutes a crime of
    violence,” and he contends this delinquent act must be committed
    by the charged juvenile because the statute does not expressly
    permit complicity liability. In support, he cites Allman v. People,
    
    2019 CO 78
    , ¶¶ 29-33, which concluded that, because the
    probation statute does not grant courts the power to impose
    sentences to both imprisonment and probation in a multi-count
    case, a court may not impose imprisonment for some offenses and
    probation for others. But cf. People v. Keen, 
    2021 CO 50
    , ¶¶ 1, 22-
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    39 (limiting Allman’s reach where a defendant is sentenced to
    probation under the Colorado Sex Offender Lifetime Supervision Act
    of 1998).
    ¶ 22   Yet, N.D.O does not appeal the jury’s finding that he
    committed aggravated robbery under a complicity theory. See
    People v. Ramirez, 
    997 P.2d 1200
    , 1207 (Colo. App. 1999) (“A
    defendant is not convicted of complicity, but rather is convicted of
    an offense under a theory of complicity as the means by which the
    offense was committed by a particular defendant.”), aff’d by an
    equally divided court, 
    43 P.3d 611
     (Colo. 2001). It is that
    delinquent act for which he is accountable to the same extent as
    the principal. See B.D., ¶ 16. And, as noted, section 19-2-516(3)
    expressly permits a juvenile to be designated a violent juvenile
    offender for a delinquent act that constitutes a crime of violence.
    The only question left, therefore, was whether N.D.O.’s delinquent
    act constituted a crime of violence.
    ¶ 23   On that question, N.D.O. points out that the crime of violence
    statute does not mention complicity; it includes only an enumerated
    crime that is “committed, conspired to be committed, or attempted
    to be committed.” § 18-1.3-406(2)(a)(I). To reiterate, however,
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    complicity is a theory by which a person commits a crime. Given
    that the crime of violence statute applies to an enumerated crime
    committed by one who used (or possessed and threatened to use) a
    deadly weapon — and considering B.D. and Swanson — we
    conclude that the jury should have been instructed to consider
    whether N.D.O.’s delinquent act constituted a crime of violence
    under a complicity theory.
    ¶ 24   N.D.O. also seems to claim that, pursuant to the applicable
    statutes, complicity liability cannot apply to (1) juveniles generally;
    (2) sentence enhancers with which juveniles are charged; or
    (3) crime of violence findings because they are not elements of an
    offense. To the extent he raises these claims, we reject them as
    foreclosed by B.D. and Swanson. We must follow our supreme
    court’s precedent. See In re Estate of Ramstetter, 
    2016 COA 81
    ,
    ¶ 40. Relatedly, we are not persuaded by N.D.O.’s suggestion that
    Allman conflicts with Swanson and, thus, Allman implicitly
    overruled Swanson.
    ¶ 25   Finally, N.D.O., in arguing that juveniles should not be treated
    the same as adults, cites federal cases addressing constitutional
    limits on sentencing a juvenile as an adult. See Miller v. Alabama,
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    567 U.S. 460
    , 467 (2012); Graham v. Florida, 
    560 U.S. 48
     (2010);
    see also Lucero v. People, 
    2017 CO 49
    , ¶ 15 (“Graham and Miller
    apply only where a juvenile is sentenced to the specific sentence of
    life without the possibility of parole for one offense.”); cf. People in
    Interest of T.B., 
    2021 CO 59
    , ¶ 74 (holding that mandatory lifetime
    sex offender registration for offenders with multiple juvenile
    adjudications constitutes punishment and is cruel and unusual in
    violation of the Eighth Amendment). But N.D.O. does not raise a
    constitutional challenge or contend that any statute is ambiguous
    and must be construed to avoid constitutional infirmity. See People
    v. Ross, 
    2021 CO 9
    , ¶ 35 (“The ‘doctrine of constitutional avoidance’
    . . . applies only when courts interpret statutes that are
    ambiguous.”). So those federal cases do not persuade us that we
    may depart from our supreme court’s application of complicity
    liability to juveniles. See B.D., ¶ 16.3
    3 We also find inapposite the decision in J.D.B. v. North Carolina,
    
    564 U.S. 261
    , 264-65 (2011) (“[W]e hold that a child’s age properly
    informs the Miranda custody analysis.”).
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    ¶ 26   For all these reasons, we disapprove the trial court’s ruling
    and resulting instruction to the effect that complicity did not apply
    to the crime of violence interrogatories.4
    III.   N.D.O.’s Sentence
    ¶ 27   Next, the prosecution contends that the trial court’s “failure to
    designate N.D.O. as a violent juvenile offender when he was
    adjudicated delinquent for a delinquent act that constituted a crime
    of violence as defined in section 18-1.3-406(2) resulted in an illegal
    sentence.” See People v. Anaya, 
    894 P.2d 28
    , 31 (Colo. App. 1994)
    (recognizing that the People may challenge an illegal sentence for
    the first time on appeal); cf. Crim. P. 35(a) (“The court may correct a
    sentence that was not authorized by law or that was imposed
    without jurisdiction at any time . . . .”). We disagree.
    ¶ 28   We review the legality of a sentence de novo. People in Interest
    of J.S.R., 2014 COA 98M, ¶ 12. “An illegal sentence is one that is
    not authorized by law, meaning that it is inconsistent with the
    sentencing scheme established by the legislature.” People in
    4 Because the issue is not before us, we do not address the
    requirements of complicitor liability on which a jury must be
    instructed in this context. Cf. People v. Childress, 2015 CO 65M,
    ¶¶ 29, 34, 39 (addressing complicitor liability generally).
    15
    Interest of J.C., 
    2018 COA 22
    , ¶ 14 (citation omitted). The legality of
    N.D.O.’s sentence raises questions of statutory interpretation,
    which we also review de novo. B.D., ¶ 8.
    ¶ 29   Initially, we note that, even if we concluded that the trial
    court’s instructional error affected the jury’s decision to acquit
    N.D.O. of the crime of violence charges, we could not remand for a
    new trial with correct instructions. “Any prosecutorial appeal under
    section 16-12-102(1) is necessarily limited to questions of law only.
    This section does not give the People a basis upon which to
    challenge the trial court’s assessment of the evidence.” People v.
    Martinez, 
    22 P.3d 915
    , 919 (Colo. 2001) (citations omitted). Hence,
    an “appellate court is limited in its review to determining whether
    the trial court erred, and it may not order a new trial if an error was
    committed and the defendant was subsequently acquitted.” People
    v. Allee, 
    740 P.2d 1
    , 8 (Colo. 1987); see § 16-12-102(1) (“Nothing in
    this section shall authorize placing the defendant in jeopardy a
    second time for the same offense.”).
    ¶ 30   The prosecution, however, does not request a remand for a
    new trial. Instead, the prosecution contends that it does not matter
    that the jury answered “no” to the deadly weapon interrogatories
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    because — unlike when an adult is charged with a crime of violence
    — such specific findings are not necessary to designate an accused
    a violent juvenile offender (i.e., to conclude that a juvenile
    committed a crime of violence). Cf. § 18-1.3-406(4) (requiring the
    jury to make “a specific finding” as to whether the accused used, or
    possessed and threatened to use, a deadly weapon). Therefore, the
    prosecution continues, we need only look to the jury’s general
    verdicts on the substantive offenses. According to the prosecution,
    the jury found N.D.O. guilty of crimes of violence because the jury
    found him guilty of eight counts of aggravated robbery and “[e]ach
    of those counts required a deadly weapon finding as one of the
    elements of the offense.” So, the prosecution concludes that the
    “jury necessarily found the use of a deadly weapon when it found
    [N.D.O.] guilty of each of those counts.”
    ¶ 31   We need not decide if we agree with the prosecution that no
    specific crime of violence findings by the jury were necessary. Even
    if the prosecution were right, we would still reject the prosecution’s
    conclusion because the general verdicts do not show that the jury
    necessarily found the use of a deadly weapon.
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    ¶ 32   The jury convicted N.D.O. of the following forms of aggravated
    robbery:
    (1) A person who commits robbery is guilty of
    aggravated robbery if during the act of robbery
    or immediate flight therefrom:
    ...
    (c) He has present a confederate, aiding or
    abetting the perpetration of the robbery, armed
    with a deadly weapon, with the intent, either
    on the part of the defendant or confederate, if
    resistance is offered, to kill, maim, or wound
    the person robbed or any other person, or by
    the use of force, threats, or intimidation puts
    the person robbed or any other person in
    reasonable fear of death or bodily injury; or
    (d) He possesses any article used or fashioned
    in a manner to lead any person who is present
    reasonably to believe it to be a deadly weapon
    or represents verbally or otherwise that he is
    then and there so armed.
    § 18-4-302. Robbery occurs where a person “knowingly takes
    anything of value from the person or presence of another by the use
    of force, threats, or intimidation.” § 18-4-301(1), C.R.S. 2020.
    ¶ 33   Neither form of aggravated robbery described above requires
    the use, or possession and threatened use, of a deadly weapon.
    Subsection (1)(c) of section 18-4-302 requires the presence of a
    confederate armed with a deadly weapon who has the intent to
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    harm another person if resistance is offered or who, by the use of
    force, threats, or intimidation, puts any person in reasonable fear of
    death or bodily injury. Simply possessing a deadly weapon with the
    intent to use it does not satisfy the applicable crime of violence
    definition. See § 18-1.3-406(2)(a)(I)(A). Nor does subsection (1)(c)
    require that the confederate use force, threats, or intimidation with
    a deadly weapon — in contrast to subsection (1)(b) of the same
    statute (“by the use of force, threats, or intimidation with a deadly
    weapon puts the person robbed or any other person in reasonable
    fear of death or bodily injury”). § 18-4-302(1).5
    ¶ 34   Likewise, subsection (1)(d) does not require the use of an
    actual deadly weapon. Id. Rather, “a defendant may be convicted if
    the robbery is committed with the use of an item in a manner in
    which the victim would reasonably believe it to be a deadly weapon
    (i.e., a simulated deadly weapon).” People v. Palmer, 
    2018 COA 38
    ,
    5 In full, section 18-4-302(1)(b), C.R.S. 2020, provides that a person
    who commits robbery is guilty of aggravated robbery if, during the
    robbery or the immediate flight therefrom, “[h]e knowingly wounds
    or strikes the person robbed or any other person with a deadly
    weapon or by the use of force, threats, or intimidation with a deadly
    weapon knowingly puts the person robbed or any other person in
    reasonable fear of death or bodily injury.”
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    ¶ 19; see People v. Manyik, 
    2016 COA 42
    , ¶ 50 (noting that section
    18-4-302(1)(d) does not create a per se crime of violence).
    ¶ 35   Not surprisingly, then, only conduct falling within
    subsection (1)(b) constitutes a per se crime of violence. Terry v.
    People, 
    977 P.2d 145
    , 151 (Colo. 1999); see § 18-4-302(4) (“If a
    defendant is convicted of aggravated robbery pursuant to
    paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section, the court shall
    sentence the defendant in accordance with the provisions of section
    18-1.3-406.”). N.D.O. was not found guilty of violating
    subsection (1)(b).
    ¶ 36   Because N.D.O. could have committed aggravated robbery
    under subsections (1)(c) and (1)(d) without using, or possessing and
    threatening to use, a deadly weapon, such a crime of violence
    finding was not implicit in the jury’s guilty verdicts as to those
    offenses. See People v. Lutz, 
    803 P.2d 184
    , 185 (Colo. 1990)
    (“Because the two crimes require different elements of proof, the
    jury could reasonably find, from the same evidence, that the
    elements of aggravated robbery were present, while the elements of
    crime of violence were absent.”). Therefore, the jury’s verdicts do
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    not establish that N.D.O. was adjudicated for a delinquent act that
    constituted a crime of violence.
    ¶ 37   As a result, the trial court did not impose an illegal sentence
    by failing to designate N.D.O. a violent juvenile offender with a
    corresponding sentence.
    IV.      Conclusion
    ¶ 38   The ruling is disapproved, and the sentence is affirmed.
    JUDGE BROWN and JUSTICE MARTINEZ concur.
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