CO · jury_instructions
COLJI-Crim. 13:43
FURNISHING CIGARETTES, TOBACCO PRODUCTS, OR NICOTINE PRODUCTS TO A MINOR (IDENTIFICATION)
The elements of the crime of furnishing cigarettes, tobacco products,
or nicotine products to a minor (identification) are:
1. That the defendant,
2. in the State of Colorado, at or about the date and place charged,
3. gave, sold, distributed, dispensed, or offered to sell to an
individual a cigarette, tobacco product, or nicotine product,
4. without first requesting from the individual and examining a
government-issued photographic identification that established
that the individual was twenty-one years of age or older.
[5. 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 furnishing cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine
products to a minor (identification).
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 furnishing cigarettes, tobacco
products, or nicotine products to a minor (identification).
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
948ce4fbccf7f3f6a33a89d33488e4d59b9e875763070b226559897ccc96c1da
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.