CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 1082
Oral Copulation With Person Under 18 (Pen. Code,
§ 287(b)(1))
The defendant is charged [in Count] with oral copulation with a
person who was under the age of 18 [in violation of Penal Code section
287(b)(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. The other person was under the age of 18 when the act was
committed.
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.]
<Defense: Good Faith Belief 18 or Over>
[The defendant is not guilty of this crime if (he/she) reasonably and
actually believed that the other person was age 18 or older. The People
must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not
reasonably and actually believe that the other person was at least 18
years old. If the People have not met this burden, you must find the
defendant not guilty of this crime.]
New January 2006; Revised March 2017
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
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- calcrim-2020
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