{"id":1867,"date":"2026-09-21T23:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=1867"},"modified":"2026-09-21T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:54:16","slug":"forgery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=1867","title":{"rendered":"Forgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>CR28-225.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS28-225.htm\">Forgery and Counterfeiting of Papers, Documents, etc.<\/a>, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 1801 (09\/21\/26)<\/li>\n<li>CR28-226.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS28-226.htm\">Forgery (uttering forged or counterfeited instrument)<\/a>, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 1802 (09\/21\/26)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reporter&#8217;s Note<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note that the statute uses the phrase \u201cwittingly, falsely, <em>and<\/em> deceitfully\u201d and the phrase \u201cwittingly, falsely, <em>or<\/em> deceitfully.\u201d 13 V.S.A. \u00a7\u00a01801. The Committee has no way to reconcile this discrepancy, and this will have to be clarified by the legislature or a court decision. The model instruction includes both \u201cand\u201d and \u201cor\u201d in brackets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the second element, courts must select and specify the particular document from the statutory list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The definitions of \u201cforgery,\u201d \u201ccounterfeit,\u201d \u201cutter,\u201d \u201cpublish,\u201d and \u201cinstrument\u201d derive from Black\u2019s Law Dictionary. The definition of \u201cdefraud\u201d derives from Cambridge Dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CR28-225.\u00a0 Forgery and Counterfeiting of Papers, Documents, etc., 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 1801 (09\/21\/26) CR28-226.\u00a0 Forgery (uttering forged or counterfeited instrument), 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 1802 (09\/21\/26) Reporter&#8217;s Note Note that the statute uses the phrase \u201cwittingly, falsely, and deceitfully\u201d and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=1867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":460,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1867","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1867","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=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1867\/revisions\/1869"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}