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N.C.P.I.—Crim. 216.72
FELONIOUS [PURCHASING] [DISPOSING] [SELLING] [TRANSFERRING] [RECEIVING] [POSSESSING] OF [MOTOR VEHICLES] [MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS] WITH AN ALTERED [VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER] [VEHICLE PART IDENTIFICATION NUMBER]. FELONY.
NOTE WELL. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.7(b) provides for innocent
activities to which the prohibition of this section does not apply.
The defendant has been charged with felonious [purchasing]
[disposing] [selling] [transferring] [receiving] [possessing] of [motor
vehicles] [motor vehicle parts] with an [altered] [counterfeited] [defaced]
[destroyed] [disguised] [falsified] [forged] [obliterated] [removed] [[vehicle
identification number] [vehicle part identification number]].
For you to find the defendant guilty of this offense, the State must
prove two things beyond a reasonable doubt:
First, that the defendant [purchased] [disposed of] [sold] [transferred]
[received] [possessed] a [motor vehicle] [motor vehicle part] where the
[vehicle identification number of the vehicle] [vehicle part identification
number] had been [altered] [counterfeited] [defaced] [destroyed]
[disguised] [falsified] [forged] [obliterated] [removed].
And Second, that the defendant [knew] [had reasonable grounds to
believe] that the [vehicle identification number of the vehicle] [vehicle part
identification number] had been [altered] [counterfeited] [defaced]
[destroyed] [disguised] [falsified] [forged] [obliterated] [removed].
If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or
about the alleged date, the defendant [purchased] [disposed of] [sold]
[transferred] [received] [possessed] a [motor vehicle] [motor vehicle part]
where the defendant [knew] [had reasoanble grounds to believe] that the
[vehicle identification number of the vehicle] [vehicle part identification
number] had been [altered] [counterfeited] [defaced] [destroyed]
[disguised] [falsified] [forged] [obliterated] [removed], 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. 216.72 (June 2014). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.7(a)(3). 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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