CO · jury_instructions
COLJI-Crim. I:06
SPECIAL VERDICT FORM—INSANITY
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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