CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 122
Corporation Is a Person
(A/The) defendant[s] in this case, <insert name[s] of
corporate defendant[s]>, (is a corporation/are corporations). Under the
law, a corporation must be treated in the same way as a natural person.
When I use words like person or he or she in these instructions to refer
to the defendant[s], those instructions [also] apply to
<insert name[s] of corporate defendant[s]>.
New January 2006
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- calcrim-2019
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0eafaf00816575f9adc85b2799299d0987f8f0cc130ffdd4ff4238a228ad3bdf
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