{"id":707,"date":"2012-08-03T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T18:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=707"},"modified":"2015-10-01T18:11:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:11:56","slug":"disturbing-the-peace-by-telephone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=707","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing the Peace by Telephone"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>CR22-201.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS22-201.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Disturbing the Peace by Telephone<\/a>, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 1027 (10\/01\/15).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Reporter&#8217;s Note<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statute is written in the disjunctive, and the prosecution must select the specific act or acts which make up the crime so that the defendant can be sufficiently apprised of the charges against which he or she must defend.\u00a0 V.R.Cr.P. 7(b); <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Hastings<\/span>, 133 Vt. 118 (1974).\u00a0 It is not enough that a threat is made during a phone call.\u00a0 The intent element must exist at the time the telephone call is made.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Wilcox<\/span>, 160 Vt. 271, 275 (1993).\u00a0 The statute, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 1027(b), authorizes the court to instruct the jury on drawing inferences regarding the defendant\u2019s intent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CR22-201.\u00a0 Disturbing the Peace by Telephone, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 1027 (10\/01\/15). Reporter&#8217;s Note The statute is written in the disjunctive, and the prosecution must select the specific act or acts which make up the crime so that the defendant can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":434,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions\/1207"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}