CO · jury_instructions
COLJI-Crim. 3-1:08.5.SP
MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE, SUDDEN HEAT OF PASSION—SPECIAL INSTRUCTION (GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION)
If you find the defendant not guilty of second-degree murder, you
should disregard this instruction and sign the verdict form to indicate your
not guilty verdict.
If, however, you find the defendant guilty of second-degree murder,
you have been separately instructed to determine whether the defendant
was acting upon a provoked and sudden heat of passion. You are hereby
instructed that the defendant’s act did not constitute an act performed
upon a sudden heat of passion if it resulted solely from the discovery of,
knowledge about, or potential disclosure of the victim’s actual or perceived
gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, including
but not limited to under circumstances in which the victim made an
unwanted nonforcible romantic or sexual advance toward the defendant.
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
14a63ebefe791c9a3782dbcbeb14c349f64a78daa2ec732ee7e26dca31096c96
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