CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 512
Presumption That Killing Not Criminal (Pen. Code, § 194)
The law presumes that a killing is not criminal if the person killed dies
more than three years and one day from the day of the incident that
caused the death.
The People must overcome this presumption by proving that the killing
was criminal. If you have a reasonable doubt whether the killing was
criminal, you must find the defendant not guilty.
[To count the three year and one day period, begin with the day on
which the incident happened. Count that day as one whole day
regardless of what time the incident happened.]
New January 2006
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- 2026-08-20
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- calcrim-2019
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