“A state level crime is prosecuted by the people of the state of Colorado. You have Assistant Deputy, or Deputy District Attorneys that are handling those cases. A lot of times they are DUI’s, simple drug possession cases, assault cases. Moving up into felonies you have burglaries, homicides, robberies, sexual assaults. Versus a Federal case which is typically not a victim type crime, so you usually don’t have murders, while you can, you typically don’t have a murder case being prosecuted by the Federal government. It’s generally a larger drug case, money laundering, mortgage fraud, healthcare fraud those types of cases are typically what the Federal Government hones in on.”
Difference Between State and Federal Crimes | Denver Federal Criminal Defense Attorney
by Doug Richards | Nov 14, 2011 | State vs Federal Crimes, Video Blog