Controlled Substances: Continuing Criminal Enterprise - Murder

• Category: Federal - Jury Instructions - 11th Circuit - Criminal
• State: Multi-State
• Control #: US-JURY-11THCIR-O102-2-CR
• Format: Word

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Pattern Jury Instructions from the 11th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. For more information and to use the online Instruction builder please visit http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/pattern-jury-instructions Controlled Substances: Continuing Criminal Enterprise — Murder (CCE-Murder) is a type of federal charge for people who are involved in a drug enterprise that results in a death. CCE-Murder is a serious crime punishable by life in prison or the death penalty in the United States. The charge applies when someone is found to have deliberately organized, managed, or supervised a felony drug venture with five or more people and the venture has resulted in a death. The charge also applies if a person has participated in such a venture and the death was a foreseeable consequence of the venture. There are three types of CCE-Murder: murder, manslaughter, and second-degree murder. Murder is a premeditated killing, manslaughter is a killing without premeditation, and second-degree murder is an intentional killing in the heat of passion.

Controlled Substances: Continuing Criminal Enterprise — Murder (CCE-Murder) is a type of federal charge for people who are involved in a drug enterprise that results in a death. CCE-Murder is a serious crime punishable by life in prison or the death penalty in the United States. The charge applies when someone is found to have deliberately organized, managed, or supervised a felony drug venture with five or more people and the venture has resulted in a death. The charge also applies if a person has participated in such a venture and the death was a foreseeable consequence of the venture. There are three types of CCE-Murder: murder, manslaughter, and second-degree murder. Murder is a premeditated killing, manslaughter is a killing without premeditation, and second-degree murder is an intentional killing in the heat of passion.