Ala. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 15-23-18(A)

Offering Bribe to Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission

The defendant is charged with the crime of offering a bribe to the Alabama Crime

Victims Compensation Commission.

A person commits the crime of offering a bribe to the Alabama Crime Victims

Compensation Commission if he/she confers, offers, or agrees to confer anything of value

upon a member, agent or employee of the Alabama Crime Victims Compensation

Commission with the intent that such member’s or agent’s or employee’s vote, opinion,

judgment or exercise of discretion or other action in such member’s or agent’s or

employee’s official capacity will thereby be influenced.

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

elements:

(1) The defendant conferred, offered, or agreed to confer anything of value, [insert

the name or a description of the thing of value], upon a member, agent, or

employee of the Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission; (AND)

(2) The defendant did so with the intent that such member’s or agent’s or

employee’s vote, opinion, judgment or exercise of discretion or other action in

such member’s or agent’s or employee’s official capacity would be influenced.

[Read as appropriate]: It is not a defense that the member, agent or employee

sought to be influenced was not qualified to act in the desired way because of a lack of

jurisdiction or any other reason. [15-23-18(c)]

A person acts intentionally with respect to a result or to conduct when it is his/her

purpose to cause that result or to engage in that conduct. [13A-2-2(1)]

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

each of the above elements of offering a bribe to the Alabama Crime Victims

Compensation Commission, then you shall find the defendant guilty of offering a bribe to

the Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission.

If you find that the State has failed to prove any one or more of the elements of the

offense of offering a bribe to the Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission,

then you cannot find the defendant guilty of offering a bribe to the Alabama Crime Victims

Compensation Commission.

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

offenses at this point.]

[Approved 05/09/19]