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WPIC 60.10 Making or Having Burglary Tools—Definition

11A WAPRAC WPIC 60.10Washington Practice Series TMWashington Pattern Jury Instructions--Criminal

11A Wash. Prac., Pattern Jury Instr. Crim. WPIC 60.10 (5th Ed)
Washington Practice Series TM
Washington Pattern Jury Instructions--Criminal
January 2024 Update
Washington State Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions
Part IX. Crimes Against Property
WPIC CHAPTER 60. Burglary and Criminal Trespass
WPIC 60.10 Making or Having Burglary Tools—Definition
A person commits the crime of making or having burglary tools when he or she makes, mends, or causes to be made or mended, or possesses any engine, machine, tool, false key, pick lock, bit, nippers, or implement adapted, designed, or commonly used for the commission of burglary under circumstances evincing an intent to use or employ, or allow the same to be used or employed in the commission of a burglary, or knowing that the same is intended to be so used.
Burglary is the entering or remaining unlawfully in a building with intent to commit a crime against a person or property therein.
NOTE ON USE
Use the first paragraph of 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 the second paragraph of this instruction with WPIC 60.11 (Making or Having Burglary Tools—Elements).
With this instruction use WPIC 10.01 (Intent—Intentionally—Definition) and WPIC 10.02 (Knowledge—Knowingly—Definition). Consider using WPIC 2.05 (Building—Definition) (without that instruction's bracketed term “vehicle”) and WPIC 65.02 (Enters or Remains Unlawfully—Definition).
COMMENT
RCW 9A.52.060.
[Current as of May 2018.]
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