VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Crim. No. 21.210
Serious Bodily Injury—Definition
Serious bodily injury means bodily injury that involves substantial risk of death, extreme
physical pain, obvious disfigurement that lasts for a long time, or loss or impairment of the function
of a bodily member, organ or mental faculty that lasts for a long time.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Criminal, Release 26, October 2025. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- crim-2025-10-01
- Content hash
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