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California Criminal Jury Instructions (CALCRIM) (2017) 863. Assault on Transportation Personnel or Passenger With Deadly Weapon or Force Likely to Produce Great Bodily Injury :: Justia
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863. Assault on Transportation Personnel or Passenger With Deadly Weapon or Force Likely to Produce Great Bodily Injury
863.Assault on Transportation Personnel or Passenger With
Deadly Weapon or Force Likely to Produce Great Bodily Injury
(Pen. Code, §§ 240, 245, 245.2)
The defendant is charged [in Count ] with assault with (force
likely to produce great bodily injury/a deadly weapon) on (a/an)
(operator/driver/station agent/ticket agent/passenger) of (a/an)
<insert name of vehicle or transportation entity speciﬁed in
Pen. Code, § 245.2> [in violation of Penal Code section 245.2].
[1. The defendant willfully did an act with a deadly weapon that by
its nature would directly and probably result in the application
of force to a person;]
weapon) to a person;
<Alternative 5A—transportation personnel>
[5. When the defendant acted, the person assaulted was performing
(his/her) duties as (a/an) (operator/driver/station agent/ticket
agent) of (a/an) <insert name of vehicle or
transportation entity speciﬁed in Pen. Code, § 245.2>;]
<Alternative 5B—passenger>
[5. The person assaulted was a passenger of (a/an)
<insert name of vehicle or transportation entity speciﬁed in Pen.
Code, § 245.2>;]
6. When the defendant acted, (he/she) knew, or reasonably should
have known, [both] that the person assaulted was (a/an)
<insert name of vehicle or transportation entity
speciﬁed in Pen. Code, § 245.2> [and that (he/she) was
performing (his/her) duties](;/.)
7. The defendant did not act (in self-defense/ [or] in defense of
[The terms application of force and apply force mean to touch in a
harmful or offensive manner. The slightest touching can be enough if it
is done in a rude or angry way. Making contact with another person,
including through his or her clothing, is enough. The touching does not
have to cause pain or injury of any kind.]
[The touching can be done indirectly by causing an object [or someone
else] to touch the other person.]
[The People are not required to prove that the defendant actually
touched someone.]
The People are not required to prove that the defendant actually
intended to use force against someone when (he/she) acted.
No one needs to actually have been injured by defendant’s act. But if
someone was injured, you may consider that fact, along with all the
other evidence, in deciding whether the defendant committed an
assault[, and if so, what kind of assault it was].
[Great bodily injury means signiﬁcant or substantial physical injury. It is
an injury that is greater than minor or moderate harm.]
[A deadly weapon is any object, instrument, or weapon that is inherently
deadly or one that is used in such a way that it is capable of causing
and likely to cause death or great bodily injury.]
[The term[s] (great bodily injury/[and] deadly weapon)(is/are) deﬁned in
another instruction to which you should refer.]
New January 2006; Revised February 2013
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sua sponte duty to instruct on the defense. Give bracketed element 7 and any
Give element 1A if it is alleged the assault was committed with a deadly weapon.
Give element 1B if it is alleged that the assault was committed with force likely to
produce great bodily injury. (See Pen. Code, § 245.2.)
If the victim was an operator, driver, station agent, or ticket agent of an identiﬁed
vehicle or transportation entity, give element 5A and the bracketed language in
element 6. If the victim was a passenger, give element 5B and omit the bracketed
language in element 6.
Give the bracketed deﬁnition of “application or force and apply force” on request.
Give the relevant bracketed deﬁnitions unless the court has already given the
deﬁnition in other instructions. In such cases, the court may give the bracketed
sentence stating that the term is deﬁned elsewhere.
Do not give an attempt instruction in conjunction with this instruction. There is no
crime of “attempted assault” in California. (In re James M. (1973) 9 Cal.3d 517,
519 [108 Cal.Rptr. 89, 510 P.2d 33].)
• Elements. Pen. Code, §§ 240, 245, 245.2.
•Willful Deﬁned. Pen. Code, § 7(1); People v. Lara (1996) 44 Cal.App.4th 102,
107 [51 Cal.Rptr.2d 402].
• Deadly Weapon Deﬁned. People v. Brown (2012) 210 Cal.App.4th 1, 6–8 [147
Cal.Rptr.3d 848]; People v. Aguilar (1997) 16 Cal.4th 1023, 1028–1029 [68
Cal.Rptr.2d 655, 945 P.2d 1204].
• Mental State for Assault. People v. Williams (2001) 26 Cal.4th 779, 790 [111
Cal.Rptr.2d 114, 29 P.3d 197].
• Least Touching. People v. Myers (1998) 61 Cal.App.4th 328, 335 [71
Cal.Rptr.2d 518] [citing People v. Rocha (1971) 3 Cal.3d 893, 899–900, fn. 12
[92 Cal.Rptr. 172, 479 P.2d 372]].
1 Witkin & Epstein, California Criminal Law (3d ed. 2000) Crimes Against the
Person, § 72.
Crimes Against the Person, § 142.11[3]; Ch. 144, Crimes Against Order,
§ 144.01[1][j] (Matthew Bender).
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• Assault. Pen. Code, § 240.
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