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N.C.P.I.—Crim. 230.75A

IMPERSONATION OF LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICER (CARRYING OUT AN ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AUTHORITY GRANTED TO A LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICER). FELONY.

activein force · 2011-06-01 – presentas-observed

NOTE WELL: If the defendant carried out an act in accordance

with the authority granted to a law-enforcement officer by

unlawfully operating a vehicle with an operating blue light, use

this instruction. If the defendant carried out an act in accordance

with the authority granted to a law-enforcement officer by

unlawfully operating a vehicle with an operating red light, use

N.C.P.I. Crim.—230.75. Note that the use of a red light is a

misdemeanor while use of a blue light is a felony.

The defendant has been charged with impersonating a law

enforcement officer and carrying out an act in accordance with the authority

granted to a law-enforcement officer.

For you to find the defendant guilty of this offense, the State must

prove three things beyond a reasonable doubt.

First, that the defendant falsely represented to another that he was a

sworn law-enforcement officer.

Second, that the defendant made this false representation by

unlawfully operating a vehicle on a [public street] [highway] [public

vehicular area] with an operating blue light. 1

And Third, that the defendant, while making this false representation,

carried out an act in accordance with the authority granted to a law-enforcement officer in such a manner as to cause a reasonable person to

yield the right-of-way or to stop that person’s vehicle in obedience to such

blue light.

If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on the

alleged date the defendant made a false representation to another person

that the defendant was a sworn law-enforcement officer by unlawfully

operating a vehicle on a [public street] [highway] [public vehicular area]

with an operating blue light] and that the defendant carried out an act in

accordance with the authority granted to a law enforcement officer in such a

manner as to cause a reasonable person to yield the right-of-way or to stop

that person’s vehicle in obedience to such blue light, 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. 230.75A (Replacement June 2011). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-277(b). 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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