CO · jury_instructions
COLJI-Crim. 13:11
INTENTIONALLY SETTING WILDFIRE
The elements of the crime of intentionally setting wildfire are:
1. That the defendant,
2. in the State of Colorado, at or about the date and place charged,
3. intentionally,
[4. without lawful authority,
5. set on fire, or caused to be set on fire, any woods, prairie, or
grounds of any description,
6. other than his [her] own, and]
[4. permitted a fire,
5. set or caused to be set by the defendant,
6. to pass from the defendant’s own grounds to the grounds of
another, and]
7. by so doing, placed another in danger of death or serious
bodily injury or placed any building or occupied structure of
another in danger of damage.
[8. and that the defendant’s conduct was not legally authorized by
the affirmative defense[s] in Instruction[s] ___.]
After considering all the evidence, if you decide the prosecution has
proven each of the elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find
the defendant guilty of intentionally setting wildfire.
After considering all the evidence, if you decide the prosecution has
failed to prove any one or more of the elements beyond a reasonable doubt,
you should find the defendant not guilty of intentionally setting wildfire.
History
COLJI-Crim. (2025), Colorado Supreme Court Model Criminal Jury Instructions Committee. The committee's page: "The 2025 edition was published online on February 25, 2026." © 2025 Supreme Court of Colorado for the State of Colorado.
Provenance
- Source
- www.coloradojudicial.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- crim-2026-02-25
- Content hash
aac41b5cf52cb0ae689edca09693e7bcb0e0beef18d92bea1b2689fba0883292
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.