CALCRIM No. 2576

Murder (Pen. Code, § 18745)

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

igniting/ [or] attempting to (explode/ [or] ignite)) (an explosive/ [or] a

destructive device) with intent to commit murder [in violation of Penal

Code section 18745].

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

prove that:

1. The defendant (exploded/ [or] ignited/ [or] attempted to (explode/

[or] ignite)) (an explosive/ [or] a destructive device);

AND

2. When the defendant did so, (he/she) acted with the intent to

murder someone.

[An explosive is any substance, or combination of substances, (1) whose

main or common purpose is to detonate or rapidly combust and (2)

which is capable of a relatively instantaneous or rapid release of gas and

heat.]

[An explosive is also any substance whose main purpose is to be

combined with other substances to create a new substance that can

release gas and heat rapidly or relatively instantaneously.]

[<insert type of explosive from Health & Saf. Code, § 12000>

is an explosive.]

[A destructive device is <insert definition from Pen. Code,

§ 16460>.]

[<insert type of destructive device from Pen. Code, § 16460>

is a destructive device.]

[The term[s] (explosive/ [and] destructive device) (is/are) defined in

another instruction.]

New January 2006; Revised February 2012