CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 1021
Oral Copulation by Fraud (Pen. Code, § 287(a), (j))
The defendant is charged [in Count] with oral copulation by
fraud [in violation of Penal Code section 287(j)].
To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the People must
prove that:
1. The defendant committed an act of oral copulation with someone
else;
2. The other person submitted to the oral copulation because (he/
she) believed the defendant was someone (he/she) knew, other
than the defendant;
AND
3. The defendant tricked, lied, [used an artifice or pretense,] or
concealed information, intending to make the other person believe
(he/she) was someone (he/she) knew, while intending to hide (his/
her) own identity.
Oral copulation is any contact, no matter how slight, between the mouth
of one person and the sexual organ or anus of another person.
Penetration is not required.
New January 2006; Revised February 2015, September 2022
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- calcrim-2023
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