# Colton Simpson

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{{Short description|American criminal and writer}}
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{{Infobox criminal
| name   = Colton Simpson
| image_name     = Colton Simpson.jpg
| image_caption  = Simpson in 2007
| birth_date  = {{circa|1966}}
| birth_place = United States
| death_date  = 
| death_place = 
| alias          = 
| conviction     = Robbery<br>Attempted murder<br>Burglary<br>Grand theft
| conviction_penalty        = 126 years imprisonment
| conviction_status         = Incarcerated (CEN)
| occupation     = Author
| parents        = [Dick Simpson](/source/Dick_Simpson)
}}
'''Colton Simpson''' (born {{circa|1966}})<ref name="nctimes">http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/09/24/news/californian/21_26_289_23_05.txt{{dead link|date=May 2017}}</ref> is an American criminal and former member of the [Crips](/source/Crips) street gang who is serving a 126-year prison sentence under California's [three-strikes law](/source/three-strikes_law).

He is the author of ''Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang'', a book detailing his life in the gang. In 1998 he was charged with attempted murder, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

He is the son of former baseball player [Dick Simpson](/source/Dick_Simpson).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Powers |first1=Ashley |title=A Case Against Him in His Own Words |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-12-me-crip12-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=12 April 2006}}</ref>

His prior convictions include a 1986 conviction for robbery and attempted murder.<ref name="nctimes" />

Simpson was arrested in March 2003, two days after a jewel robbery in [Temecula, California](/source/Temecula%2C_California). Rental documents linked him to the getaway car used in the robbery, and he was identified as the driver by two police officers who had pursued the car. A trial scheduled for August 2005 was postponed after Simpson's attorney removed himself from the case.<ref name="nctimes" /> In 2007, Simpson was found guilty of robbery, burglary and grand theft, and sentenced under California's three-strikes law.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303797,00.html Gang Member Sentenced to 126 Years in Jail for Heist Described In Memoir]</ref>

''Inside the Crips'' was published in 2005.<ref name="nctimes" />

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