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Va. Model Jury Instr. Crim. No. 53.185
Expert Witness—Mental Illness Without Insanity
It is your responsibility to decide whether the defendant possessed the required intent at the
time the alleged crime was committed. You are not required to accept the opinion of any expert
witness in determining whether the defendant possessed such intent. You should give the
testimony of an expert such consideration as you feel it is entitled along with the other evidence in
this case.
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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