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WPIC 190.08 Special Verdict Form—Sexual Motivation

11A Wash. Prac., Pattern Jury Instr. Crim. WPIC 190.08 (5th Ed)

Washington Practice Series TM

Washington Pattern Jury Instructions--Criminal

January 2024 Update

Washington State Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions

Part XV. Verdict Forms

WPIC CHAPTER 190. Special Verdict Forms

WPIC 190.08 Special Verdict Form—Sexual Motivation

(Insert case caption.)

We, the jury, return a special verdict by answering as follows:

QUESTION: Did the defendant (defendant's name) commit the crime of (fill in name of crime) with a sexual motivation?

ANSWER: (Write “yes” or “no”)

DATE:
	Presiding Juror

NOTE ON USE

Use this special verdict when enhancement of the penalty is sought because of sexual motivation.

Use this instruction with WPIC 2.26 (Sexual Motivation—Definition) and WPIC 160.00 (Concluding Instruction—Special Verdict—Penalty Enhancements).

COMMENT

RCW 9.94A.835(2).

[Current as of January 2019.]

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