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Va. Model Jury Instr. Crim. No. 45.310
Affirmative Defense—Defendant Reasonably Believed Pursuer was Not a Law Enforcement Officer
If you find from the evidence that the defendant has shown he reasonably believed he was
being pursued by a person other than a law-enforcement officer, then you shall find the defendant
not guilty of disregarding a signal by a law-enforcement officer to stop.
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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