Colorado Jury Instructions - Criminal, 2022 ed.

Written by the Supreme Court Committee on Criminal Jury Instructions, Colorado Jury Instructions – Criminal includes several sections of model instructions that are generally applicable, and encompass the entirety of Colorado's Criminal Code (Title 18 of the Colorado Revised Statutes).

The Committee added 19 new chapters, expanded comments, revisions based on 2016 legislation, corrections to substantive errors that appeared in COLJI-Crim. (2015), and corrections to nonsubstantive formatting irregularities.

Contents include:

• General instructions prior to a criminal trial
• Instructions during trial
• Definitions and special rules
• Homicide
• Offenses against the person
• Burglary, robbery, and theft offenses
• Fraud
• Prostitution
• Obstruction of public justice and judicial proceedings
• Second and subsequent offenses
• Perjury and related offenses
• Firearms and weapons
• Uniform Commercial Code
• Controlled substances
• Motor vehicles

Also included are verdict forms and tables of statutes and rules.