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WPIC 40.01 Rape—First Degree—Definition

11 WAPRAC WPIC 40.01Washington Practice Series TMWashington Pattern Jury Instructions--Criminal

11 Wash. Prac., Pattern Jury Instr. Crim. WPIC 40.01 (5th Ed)
Washington Practice Series TM
Washington Pattern Jury Instructions--Criminal
January 2024 Update
Washington State Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions
Part VII. Sex Crimes
WPIC CHAPTER 40. Rape—First Degree
WPIC 40.01 Rape—First Degree—Definition
A person commits the crime of rape in the first degree when he or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person by forcible compulsion when he or she [or an accomplice] [uses or threatens to use a deadly weapon or what appears to be a deadly weapon] [or] [kidnaps the other person] [or] [inflicts serious physical injury] [or] [feloniously enters into the building or vehicle where the other person is situated].
NOTE ON USE
Use this instruction if it will help the jury understand the charged offense or if it is necessary to define this particular offense for the jury. See the Comment to WPIC 4.24 (Definition of the Crime—Form).
Use bracketed material as applicable. For directions on the various ways to use the bracketed phrases, see WPIC 4.20 (Introduction).
Use WPIC 45.01 (Sexual Intercourse—Definition) and WPIC 45.03 (Forcible Compulsion—Definition) with this instruction. Also use, as applicable, WPIC 10.51 (Accomplice—Definition), WPIC 2.06 (Deadly Weapon—Definition as Element—Firearm or Explosive), WPIC 2.03 (Bodily Injury—Physical Injury—Definition), and WPIC 40.03 (Rape—First Degree—Feloniously Enters a Building—Definition).
COMMENT
RCW 9A.44.040.
[Current as of December 2019.]
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