CO · jury_instructions
COLJI-Crim. 9-3:16
ABUSE OF TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH SERVICE (READING A MESSAGE)
The elements of the crime of abuse of telephone and telegraph service
(reading a message) are:
1. That the defendant,
2. in the State of Colorado, at or about the date and place charged,
3. knowingly,
4. without authorization,
5. read or learned the contents or meaning of a message on its
transit and used or communicated to another any information
so obtained.
[6. 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 abuse of telephone and telegraph service (reading a
message).
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 abuse of telephone and
telegraph service (reading a message).
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
b7b6f500a14f23c21be9d71bc5265de733b084d30630d035c5fc3776caa0d670
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