CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 627
Hallucination: Effect on Premeditation
A hallucination is a perception not based on objective reality. In other
words, a person has a hallucination when that person believes that he or
she is seeing or hearing [or otherwise perceiving] something that is not
actually present or happening.
Y ou may consider evidence of hallucinations, if any, in deciding whether
the defendant acted with deliberation and premeditation.
The People have the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that
the defendant acted with deliberation and premeditation. If the People
have not met this burden, you must find the defendant not guilty of first
degree murder.
New January 2006; Revised February 2015, September 2017
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- 2026-08-20
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- calcrim-2019
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