CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 3178
Sex Offenses: Sentencing Factors—Burglary With Intent to
Commit Sex Offense (Pen. Code, § 667.61(d)(4))
If you find the defendant guilty of the crime[s] charged in Count[s]
<insert counts charging sex offense[s] from Pen. Code, § 667.61(c)>,
you must then decide whether[, for each crime,] the People have proved
the additional allegation that the defendant committed the crime during
the commission of burglary, with the intent to commit
<insert sex offense[s] from Pen. Code, § 667.61(c)>. [Y ou must decide
whether the People have proved this allegation for each crime and
return a separate finding for each crime.]
To prove this allegation, the People must prove that:
1. The defendant entered an inhabited (house [or a room within an
inhabited house]/vessel/floating home/trailer coach/part of a
building);
2. When the defendant entered the (house [or room within the
house]/vessel/floating home/trailer coach/part of a building), (he/
she) intended to commit <insert sex offense[s] from
Pen. Code, § 667.61(c)>;
AND
3. After the defendant entered the (house [or room within the
house]/vessel/floating home/trailer coach/part of a building), (he/
she) committed <insert sex offense[s] from Pen. Code,
§ 667.61(c)> [before (he/she) escaped to a place of temporary
safety].
A (house [or a room within an inhabited house]/vessel/floating
home/trailer coach/part of a building) is inhabited if someone uses it as a
dwelling, whether or not someone is inside at the time of the alleged
entry.
[A house includes any (structure/garage/office/ <insert
description>) that is attached to the house and functionally connected
with it.]
[The defendant intended to commit rape if he intended to have sexual
intercourse with a woman [who was not his wife], without her consent,
by (using force, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful
bodily injury to her or to another person/threatening to retaliate against
her or against a third person with a reasonable possibility that the threat
would be carried out/threatening to have her or a third person
incarcerated, arrested, or deported).]
[To decide whether the defendant intended to commit
<insert sex offense[s] other than rape from Pen. Code, § 667.61(c)>, please
refer to the separate instructions that I (will give/have given) you on
(that/those) crime[s].]
[A person has reached a place of temporary safety if he or she has
successfully escaped from the scene of the crime and is no longer being
pursued.]
The People have the burden of proving each allegation beyond a
reasonable doubt. If the People have not met this burden, you must find
that the allegation has not been proved.
New January 2006
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- calcrim-2023
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