CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 562
Transferred Intent
<A. Only unintended victim is killed.>
[If the defendant intended to kill one person, but by mistake or accident
killed someone else instead, then the crime, if any, is the same as if the
intended person had been killed.]
<B. Both intended and unintended victims are killed.>
[If the defendant intended to kill one person, but by mistake or accident
also killed someone else, then the crime, if any, is the same for the
unintended killing as it is for the intended killing.]
New January 2006; Revised September 2024*
* Denotes changes only to bench notes and other commentaries.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- calcrim-2025
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