CO · jury_instructions
COLJI-Crim. E:15
SPECIAL VERDICT FORM (LESSER-INCLUDED OFFENSES)
District Court, [City and] County of [], Colorado
Case No. [], Div. [].
People of the State of Colorado
v.
[insert name of defendant]
JURY VERDICT, Count No.[]
CHARGE OF [insert name of offense here]
I.* We, the jury, find the defendant, [insert name], NOT GUILTY
of Count No. ____, [insert name of offense], and the lesser-included offense[s] of [insert name(s) of lesser-included
offense(s)].
__________________
FOREPERSON
II.** We, the jury, find the defendant, [insert name], GUILTY of:
[] [insert principal crime charged]
OR
[] [insert lesser-included offense, and include a separate entry and
corresponding box for each lesser-included offense.]
__________________
FOREPERSON
* If you find the defendant NOT GUILTY of the charged offense and
the lesser-included offense[s], the foreperson should sign section I above.
** If you find the defendant guilty of the crime charged or [one of] the
lesser-included offense[s], the foreperson should complete only this
GUILTY verdict by placing, in ink, an “X” in the appropriate square.
ONLY ONE SQUARE may be filled in, with the remainder to remain
unmarked. The foreperson should then sign only section II above.
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
43f03a03a6186fa39e760eaf12b22d19cbc961e18dabb43a703aef57ebdb076d
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.