Burglary Defense Attorney in Kansas City, Missouri

Beginning January 1, 2017–Burglary in the first degree–penalty. 569.160.

A person commits the offense of burglary in the first degree if he or she knowingly enters unlawfully or knowingly remains unlawfully in a building or inhabitable structure for the purpose of committing an offense therein, and when in effecting entry or while in the building or inhabitable structure for the purpose of committing an offense therein, and when in effecting entry or while in the building or inhabitable structure or in immediate flight therefrom, the person or another participant in the offense:

1. Is armed with explosives or a deadly weapon; or

2. Causes or threatens immediate physical injury to any person who is not a participant in the crime; or

3. There is present in the structure another person who is not a participant in the crime.

4. The offense of burglary in the first degree is a class B felony.
Beginning January 1, 2017–Burglary in the second degree–penalty. 569.170. 1. A person commits the offense of burglary in the second degree when he or she knowingly enters unlawfully or knowingly remains unlawfully in a building or inhabitable structure for the purpose of committing a crime therein.

5. The offense of burglary in the second degree is a class D felony. Beginning January 1, 2017–Possession of burglar’s tools–penalty.
569.180. 1. A person commits the offense of possession of burglar’s tools if he or she possesses any tool, instrument or other article adapted, designed or commonly used for committing or facilitating offenses involving forcible entry into premises, with a purpose to use or knowledge that some person has the purpose of using the same in making an unlawful forcible entry into a building or inhabitable structure or a room thereof.

6. The offense of possession of burglar’s tools is a class E felony.