CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 1080
Oral Copulation With Person Under 14 (Pen. Code,
§ 287(c)(1))
The defendant is charged [in Count] with oral copulation of a
person who was under the age of 14 and at least 10 years younger than
the defendant [in violation of Penal Code section 287(c)(1)].
To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the People must
prove that:
1. The defendant participated in an act of oral copulation with
another person;
AND
2. At the time of the act, the other person was under the age of 14
and was at least 10 years younger than the defendant.
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.
[It is not a defense that the other person may have consented to the act.]
[Under the law, a person becomes one year older as soon as the first
minute of his or her birthday has begun.]
New January 2006; Revised September 2020
Provenance
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- courts.ca.gov
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- 2026-08-20
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- calcrim-2021
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