• 2004 - Permitting Escape
  • K-14.20
    • Escape
    • Flight
    • Prisons
    • Public Crimes
    • Public Crimes

  • A public servant concerned in official detention who [recklessly] [negligently] permits a person in official detention pursuant to process issued by a [Court] [Judge] [Magistrate] to escape, is guilty of a public servant permitting escape.

     

    ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF OFFENSE

     

    The State’s burden of proof is satisfied if the evidence shows, beyond a reasonable doubt, the following essential elements:

     

    1) On or about [month] [day] [year], in [County], North Dakota, the Defendant, _______________, was a public servant concerned in the official detention of _______________ pursuant to certain process, _______________, issued by a [Court] [Judge] [Magistrate]; and

     

    2) While so concerned, the Defendant, _______________, [recklessly] [negligently] permitted the escape of _______________.

     

    DEFINITIONS See 12.1-08-06. [Insert other relevant definitions. NDCC 12.1-01-04, 12.1-02-02.]


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    • 12.1-08-06
    • 12.1-08-07
    • Buzzell v. Libi, 340 NW2d 36 (ND 1983)
    • Flatt v. Kantak, 2004 ND 173, 687 NW2d 208
    • Jaskoviak v. Gruver, 2002 ND 1, 638 NW2d 1
    • Kershaw v. Reichert, 445 NW2d 16 (ND 1989)
    • Koapke v. Herfendal, 2003 ND 64, 660 NW2d 206 (den
    • Winkjer v. Herr, 277 NW2d 579 (ND 1979)
  • Notes: See NDCC 12.1-08-06 for defenses permitted. See K - 14.15, Official Detention (Definitions).