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COLJI-Crim. I:06

SPECIAL VERDICT FORM—INSANITY

activein force · 2026-02-25 – presentcompiled-edition

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]

PART A

I. We, the jury, find the defendant, [insert name], NOT GUILTY

of Count No. [], [insert name of offense].

__________________

FOREPERSON*

II. We, the jury, find the defendant, [insert name], GUILTY of

Count No. [], [insert name of offense].

__________________

FOREPERSON*

* The foreperson should sign only one of the above (I or II). If the

verdict is NOT GUILTY, then I. above should be signed. If the verdict is

GUILTY, then II. above should be signed.

PART B

If you find the defendant not guilty of this charge [and you also find

him [her] not guilty of (list, in the conjunctive, all felony charges)], you

should answer the following question. However, if you find the defendant

guilty of this charge [or you find him [her] guilty of one or more of the

following charges (list, in the disjunctive, all felony charges)], you should

leave this section blank.

As to Count No. ____, charging the defendant with [insert name of

offense], did you find the defendant not guilty solely based on the

defense of insanity?

[] Yes [] No

__________________

FOREPERSON**

** If you find the defendant “not guilty” of this charge [and of all other

charges listed above], the foreperson should use ink to mark the

appropriate place indicating the answer to the verdict question, and then

sign on the designated line. You should mark “Yes” if you decide that the

only element of the crime charged that the prosecution failed to prove

beyond a reasonable doubt is that the defendant was sane at the time of the

commission of the act. If you decide that the prosecution failed to prove

any other element, you should mark “No.”

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
45d0ed4e375395ef35c7cba2378a4c706654679fa912e09e22960cb4df1207f8
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