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CJI2d[NY] Penal Law art 145, Additional Definitions

ADDITIONAL DEFINITIONS

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ALTER means to change some of the elements or ingredients without substituting an entirely new thing or destroying the identity of the thing affected.¹

ADULTERATE means to mix something impure or spurious with something pure or genuine, or an inferior article with a superior one of the same kind, or to render food or drink impure and unfit for consumption.²

CONTAMINATE means to make impure through mixture or contact with a foreign substance.³

History

Caption: ADDITIONAL DEFINITIONS. Read from the committee's Word file. Prepared by the New York State Unified Court System Committee on Criminal Jury Instructions, Model Colloquies, and Evidence Rules; published by the Unified Court System at nycourts.gov (the internet edition is the only current and official publication of CJI2d).

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