CO · jury_instructions
COLJI-Crim. 3-4:32.SP
SEXUAL ASSAULT ON A CHILD—SPECIAL INSTRUCTION (IGNORANCE OF THE CHILD’S AGE IS NOT A DEFENSE)
If a child is younger than fifteen, a person charged with sexual
assault on a child cannot assert a defense based on the fact that the person
did not know the child’s age or reasonably believed the child to be fifteen
years of age or older.
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
2a0741e2496fd5b7e0e1d27a011742aeccdc973fff299e91a07292f8c9bd359a
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