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8.5-4 Falsely Reporting an Incident Concerning Serious Physical Injury or Death -- § 53a-180b
Revised to December 1, 2007
The defendant is charged [in count __] with falsely reporting an incident concerning serious physical injury or death. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of falsely reporting an incident concerning serious physical injury or death when such person commits the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the second degree and such false report is of the alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of the serious physical injury or death of another person.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Committed falsely
reporting an incident in the second degree
The first element is that the
defendant committed the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the second
degree. <Insert the elements from
Falsely Reporting an Incident in the Second Degree, Instruction 8.5-5.>
Element 2 - Concerning serious
physical injury or death
The second element is that the false
report was of the alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of the serious
physical injury to or death of another person. "Impending" means about to
happen.
"Physical injury" means impairment of physical condition or pain. "Serious physical injury" is something more serious than mere physical injury. It is more than a minor or superficial injury. It is defined by statute as "physical injury that creates a substantial risk of death, or that causes serious disfigurement, serious impairment of health or serious loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ."
Conclusion
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that <insert the concluding summary from the instruction for falsely reporting an incident in the second degree>, and that the false report concerned the (serious physical injury / death) of another person.
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of falsely reporting
an incident concerning serious physical injury or death, then you shall find the
defendant guilty. On the other hand, if you unanimously find that the state has
failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the elements, you shall then
find the defendant not guilty.