CO · jury_instructions
CJI-Civ. 23:4
Severe Emotional Distress — Defined
Severe emotional distress consists of highly unpleasant mental reactions, such as
(nervous shock, fright, horror, grief, shame, humiliation, embarrassment, anger, chagrin,
disappointment, or worry) and is so extreme that no person of ordinary sensibilities could
be expected to tolerate and endure it. The duration and intensity of emotional distress are
factors to be considered in determining its severity.
(If a person is more susceptible to a certain kind of emotional distress than a person
of ordinary sensibilities and that fact is known to another person who recklessly or
intentionally causes that emotional distress, then the emotional distress is severe if it is
more than a person of the same or similar susceptibility would reasonably be expected to
endure under the same or similar circumstances.)
History
CJI-Civ. (2026), Colorado Supreme Court Committee on Pattern Civil Jury Instructions. Dated 2026-02-25 by the committee page's "Revised 2/25/26".
Provenance
- Source
- www.coloradojudicial.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- civ-2026-02-25
- Content hash
501f838bd213d2b949d2157065ac68d83b924b27339b325865b020fe3a256afe
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