{"id":1808,"date":"2025-04-02T22:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=1808"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:13:25","slug":"selling-a-regulated-drug-with-death-resulting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=1808","title":{"rendered":"Selling a Regulated Drug with Death Resulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>CR40-901. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-901.htm\">Selling or Dispensing a Regulated Drug<\/a> (death resulting), 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4250 (04\/01\/25)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reporter&#8217;s Note<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the mental element, the State must prove that the defendant knew that what he sold contained the specific regulated drug at the time he sold it. <em>See<\/em> <u>State v. Rillo<\/u>, 2020 VT 82, \u00b6 12, 213 Vt. 193 (\u201cThe \u2018knowing\u2019 element of the alleged crime required proof that defendant knew the drug contained fentanyl <u>at the time he committed the crime<\/u>.\u201d) (emphasis in original).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note that, in 2024, the legislature added the following language to 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4250(b): \u201cThe fact that a dispensed or sold substance contains more than one regulated drug shall not be a defense under this section if the proximate cause of death is the use of the dispensed or sold substance containing more than one regulated drug.\u201d The model instruction includes that language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The specific statutory drug definitions applicable here may present confusion. Note that cocaine and heroin as specifically defined in 18 V.S.A. \u00a7\u00a7 4201(35) and (36), respectively, appear to be different than what is contemplated by the definition of \u201cregulated drug\u201d in \u00a7\u00a04201(29). The \u201cregulated drug\u201d definition does not define cocaine or heroin directly, but instead includes \u201cnarcotic drug[s],\u201d which has its own definition. <em>See<\/em> 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4201(16). It may be helpful to consult the applicable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/pdf\/Regulated%20Drug%20Rule.Final%20Adopted.7.15.19.pdf\">Department of Health rules<\/a> adopted pursuant to \u00a7 4202 and referenced throughout \u00a7 4201.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CR40-901. Selling or Dispensing a Regulated Drug (death resulting), 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4250 (04\/01\/25) Reporter&#8217;s Note As part of the mental element, the State must prove that the defendant knew that what he sold contained the specific regulated drug at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=1808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":505,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1808","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1808\/revisions\/1809"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}