NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Crim. 207.15.3
STATUTORY SEXUAL OFFENSE AGAINST AN ALLEGED VICTIM WHO WAS THIRTEEN, FOURTEEN, OR FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. (OFFENSES PRIOR TO DEC. 1, 2015) FELONY.
The defendant has been charged with statutory sexual offense against
an alleged victim who was [thirteen] [fourteen] [fifteen] years old at the
time of the offense.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this offense, the State must
prove four things beyond a reasonable doubt:
First, that the defendant engaged in a sexual act with the alleged
victim. A sexual act means
(A) [cunnilingus, which is any touching, however slight, by the lips
or tongue of one person to any part of the female sex organ of
another.]1
(B) [fellatio, which is any touching by the lips or tongue of one
person and the male sex organ of another.]2
(C) [analingus, which is any touching by the lips or tongue of one
person and the anus of another.]
(D) [anal intercourse, which is any penetration, however slight, of
the anus of any person by the male sexual organ of another.]
(E) [any penetration, however slight, by an object into the [genital]
[anal] opening of a person's body.]
Second, that at the time of the act[s], the alleged victim was
[thirteen] [fourteen] [fifteen] years old.
Third, that at the time of the act[s], the defendant was [at least six]
[more than four but less than six] years older than the alleged victim.
And Fourth, that at the time of the act[s], the defendant was not
lawfully married to the alleged victim.
If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or
about the alleged date the defendant engaged in a sexual act with the
alleged victim who was [thirteen] [fourteen] [fifteen] years old, and that the
defendant was [at least six] [more than four but less than six] years older
than the victim, and was not lawfully married to the victim, it would be your
duty to return a verdict of guilty. If you do not so find or have a reasonable
doubt as to one or more of these things, it would be your duty to return a
verdict of not guilty.
History
N.C.P.I.—Crim. 207.15.3 (Replacement June 2016). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.7A. Prepared by the North Carolina Conference of Superior Court Judges' Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, assisted by the UNC School of Government; published by the School of Government.
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