In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report 2019-07

Summary

The court authorized publication and use of an amended criminal jury instruction addressing felony reclassification based on a defendant’s personal carrying, displaying, using, threatening to use, or attempting to use a firearm or weapon. It concluded that separate instructions for firearms and other weapons were unnecessary and deleted the separate weapon instruction. The amended instruction incorporates a definition of weapon that includes objects used, threatened to be used, attempted to be used, or intended to be used to inflict bodily harm.