VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Crim. No. 41.400
Perjury—Materiality
For a statement to be material to any issue being [tried; heard] the statement must be one which
is relevant to the fact then being [tried; heard] or to any substantial circumstance which tends to
prove or disprove such fact.
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
1fe187a2adef6d4bcf9d1ad919245aa4d7dc13db7c44382415daee4dc772a574
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