CALCRIM No. 1920

(Pen. Code, § 470a)

The defendant is charged [in Count] with (altering[,]/ [or]

falsifying[,]/ [or] forging[,]/ [or] duplicating[,]/ [or] reproducing[,]/ [or]

counterfeiting) a (driver’s license/ [or] government-issued identification

card) [in violation of Penal Code section 470a].

To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the People must

prove that:

1. The defendant (altered[,]/ [or] falsified[,]/ [or] forged[,]/ [or]

duplicated[,]/ [or] reproduced[,]/ [or] counterfeited) a (driver’s

license/ [or] government-issued identification card);

AND

2. When the defendant did that act, (he/she) intended that the

(driver’s license/ [or] identification card) be used to help commit

forgery.

Someone intends to commit forgery if he or she intends to use a forged,

counterfeit, altered, falsified, duplicated, or reproduced document to

deceive another person in order to cause a loss of, or damage to, a legal,

financial, or property right.

[For the purpose of this instruction, a person includes (a governmental

agency/a corporation/a business/an association/the body politic).]

[A person alters a document if he or she adds to, erases, or changes a

part of the document that affects a legal, financial, or property right.]

[It is not necessary that anyone actually be defrauded or actually suffer

a financial, legal, or property loss as a result of the defendant’s acts.]

[The People allege that the defendant (altered[,]/ [or] falsified[,]/ [or]

forged[,]/ [or] duplicated[,]/ [or] reproduced[,]/ [or] counterfeited) the

following documents: <insert description of each document

when multiple items alleged>. Y ou may not find the defendant guilty

unless you all agree that the People have proved that the defendant

(altered[,]/ [or] falsified[,]/ [or] forged[,]/ [or] duplicated[,]/ [or]

reproduced[,]/ [or] counterfeited) at least one of these documents and

you all agree on which document (he/she) (altered[,]/ [or] falsified[,]/ [or]

forged[,]/ [or] duplicated[,]/ [or] reproduced[,]/ [or] counterfeited).]

New January 2006