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11th Cir. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) O68.2

Possession of Contraband by a Federal Prisoner

activein force · 2021-08-01 – presentact-effective-date

18 U.S.C. § 1791(a)(2)

It’s a Federal crime for a Federal prisoner to knowingly [make] [possess]

[get] certain forbidden objects.

The Defendant can be found guilty of this crime only if all the following

facts are proved beyond a reasonable doubt:

(1) the Defendant was an inmate of a Federal prison or correctional

facility at the time stated in the indictment;

(2) at the time, the Defendant knowingly [made] [possessed]

[acquired] the object described in the indictment; and

(3) the object was a forbidden object.

A “forbidden object” is [describe the relevant object as enumerated in

subsection (d)(1) of the statute].

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2026-08-20
Edition
criminal-2021-08
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187a5023d02063e3909b318462e39f242c1f2c891e3061be1803075ac5dfde90
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