UJI 14-134 NMRA
UJI 14-134. "Proximate cause"; defined.1
In addition to the other elements of the crime of __________________ (name of
crime) as set forth in instruction number ________,2 the state must also prove to your
satisfaction beyond a reasonable doubt that:
1.
__________________ (name of victim) was __________________
(describe injury or harm);
2.
The injury or harm was the foreseeable result of the defendant’s act; and
3.
The act of the defendant was a significant cause of the injury or harm.
The defendant’s act was a significant cause of the injury or harm if it was an act
which, in a natural and continuous chain of events, uninterrupted by an outside event,
resulted in the injury or harm and without which the injury or harm would not have
occurred.
[There may be more than one significant cause of the injury or harm. If the acts of
two or more persons significantly contribute to the cause of the injury or harm, each act
is a significant cause of the injury or harm.]3