VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Crim. No. 38.600
Criminal Street Gang—Definition
A criminal street gang is any ongoing organization, association, or group of three or more
persons, whether formal or informal:
(1) Which has as one of its primary objectives or activities the commission of one or more criminal
activities; and
(2) Which has an identifiable name or identifying sign or symbol; and
(3) Whose members individually or collectively have [engaged in the commission of; attempted to
commit; conspired to commit; solicited] two or more (list applicable predicate criminal acts), at least
one of which is (name of applicable act(s) of violence from Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-297.1); and
(4) Such criminal acts were not part of a common act or transaction.
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
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