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Here is your annual update to the indispensable book of jury charges relied on by judges and attorneys throughout the state. This year's update includes a record 87 new sections! Here are some of the sections that have been added or updated:
Chapter 2: Criminal Responsibility – Parties to Crime
NEW: Failure to Object §2:80
Chapter 3: Defenses and Special Evidentiary Charges
Voluntary Conduct Charge, §3:110
Connection of Accused to Criminal Act — Test, §3:240
Circumstantial Evidence, §3:510
General Law – Deadly Weapon, §3:640
Notice of Intent to Seek Deadly Weapon Finding, §3:690
Entrapment, §3:860
Illegally Seized Evidence, §3:980
Limitations on Self-Defense, §3:1730
Retreat — Presumption of Reasonableness (Post-2007), §3:1745
Chapter 6: Offenses Against Person
NEW: Indecency With Child — Sexual Contact §6:871
NEW: Improper Relationship Between Educator and Student, §§6:901-6:903
NEW: Unlawful Disclosure or Promotion of Intimate Visual Material, §6:936
NEW: Sexual Coercion §§6:938, 6:939
NEW: Assault — Causing Bodily Injury to Another, §6:990
NEW: Aggravated Sexual Assault, §6:1390
NEW: Injury to a Child, Elderly Individual, or Disabled Individual, §6:1432
NEW: Terroristic Threat, §6:1525
NEW: Harassment by Persons in Correctional Facilities, §6:1610, §6:1611
Chapter 9: Offenses Against Public Administration
NEW: Misrepresentation of Property, §9:535
NEW: Prohibited Substances and Items in Correctional or Civil Commitment Facility, §9:785
NEW: Prohibited Substances and Items in Correctional or Civil Commitment Facility, §9:795
NEW: Violation of the Civil Rights of Person in Custody, §9:1251
NEW: Improper Sexual Activity with Person in Custody, §9:1263
NEW: Improper Sexual Activity with Person in Custody, §9:1287
NEW: Failure to Comply with Immigration Detainer Request, §9:1375
Chapter 11: Offenses Against Public Order and Decency