Ala. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 13A-6-152(C)

Human Trafficking First Degree

(Corporation or Other Legal Entity)

The defendant is charged with human trafficking in the first degree as a

corporation or other legal entity.

A person commits the crime of human trafficking in the first degree as a corporation

or other legal entity if it commits the crime of human trafficking in the first degree and is

a corporation or any other legal entity other than an individual.

To convict, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt each of the following

elements:

1. The defendant was a corporation or any other legal entity other than

an individual, [Insert name];

2. The defendant committed human trafficking in the first degree by an act or

an omission, [Insert act or omission];

3. An agent of the corporation or entity, [Insert name of agent], performed

the conduct which was an element of the crime while acting within the

scope of his/her employment and on behalf of the corporation or entity;

4. The commission of the crime was either authorized, requested,

commanded, performed, or within the scope of the person’s employment on

behalf of the corporation or entity or constituted a pattern of conduct that an

agent of the corporation or entity knew or should have known was

occurring; (AND)

5. The defendant acted knowingly.

As I just instructed you, one of the elements that the State must prove is that

the defendant committed human trafficking in the first degree by an act or an

omission, [Insert act or omission]. Therefore, I will now instruct you what the State

must prove as to human trafficking in the first degree. [Insert instructions for Human

Trafficking First Degree 13A-6-152(a)(1), (2) and/or (3), as appropriate under the

facts]

A person acts knowingly with respect to conduct or to a circumstance

described by a statute defining an offense when he is aware that his conduct is of

that nature or that the circumstance exists. [13A-2-2(2)]

If you find from the evidence that the State has proved beyond a reasonable

doubt each of the above elements of human trafficking in the first degree, then you

shall find the defendant guilty of the offense of human trafficking in the first degree.

If you find that the State has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any

one or more of the elements of human trafficking in the first degree, then you cannot

find the defendant guilty of human trafficking in the first degree.

[If lesser-included offenses are included, the Court should instruct on

those offenses at this point.]