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	Trial Procedure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The mutual obligation of the trial judge to instruct the jury, and of the jury to follow such instructions, is a joint enterprise that ensures an accused person against arbitrary or capricious acts of the jury.
		Once the Jury has been charged it is directed to the Jury room to evaluate the evidence provided during the trial and to come to a decision as to whether it considers the defendant guilty or not guilty based on this evaluation.
		The jury may determine the degree of the crime of which the defendant is guilty; the existence of a previous conviction, if it is not admitted by the defendant; and whether a weapon was involved in the crime.
	members.tripod.com /~jctMac/proc.html (3199 words)

	Jury trial - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The jury trial (not to be confused with grand jury proceedings) is a process by which the "peers of the accused" are responsible for listening to a dispute, evaluating the evidence presented, deciding on the facts, and making a decision in accordance with the rules of law and their jury instructions.
		Because jury trials tend to be high profile, the general public tends to overestimate the frequency of jury trials.
		Juries are used in the assize courts that judge severe crimes such as murder, rape, acts of barbary (torture) and crimes against humanity (in practice, most of the cases judged are rapes).
	open-encyclopedia.com /Trial_by_jury (1145 words)

	California Courts: Guide to California Jury Service: Civil Jury Instructions Resource Center
		CACI (Pronounced "Kay See") is the name of the Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions, the official civil jury instructions and verdict forms approved by the council on July 16, 2003.
		If there is no CACI instruction on a subject on which the trial judge determines that the jury should be instructed, or if a CACI instruction cannot be modified to submit the issue properly, another instruction may be given on that subject.
		In response, the Judicial Council created the Task Force on Jury Instructions in 1997, and directed that it draft comprehensive, legally accurate jury instructions that are readily understood by the average juror.
	www.courtinfo.ca.gov /jury/civiljuryinstructions/faqs.htm (860 words)

	Idaho Civil Jury Instructions
		Instructions that the jury should consider the interest of a particular litigant in the outcome of the lawsuit in determining his credibility as a witness have been given.
		An instruction to the effect that one suddenly confronted with peril is not expected to use the same judgment as is required of him in calmer moments constitutes an argument by the court as to whether a party exercise ordinary care under the circumstances.
		The instruction may be used either in a case by a lessee or tenant against a lessor or landlord or in a case by a tenant's visitor "plaintiff, who was on the premises with the tenant's permission" against the lessee or tenant.
	www.accuscan.org /products_services/IDJIS.htm (9681 words)

	Reference from Coast to Coast - What is the Law - Finding Jury Instructions \| LLRX.com
		Jury instructions are often not requested until that hectic time immediately before or during trial and can be more than just standardized forms submitted to the judge.
		The jury instructions used by Judge Lance Ito in O.J. Simpson's trial are found at the 'Lectric Law Library.
		Kentucky instructions to juries: a text on the law relating to instructions to juries in civil and criminal cases: with forms of instructions and notes of cases bearing on such instructions.
	www.llrx.com /columns/reference19.htm (1339 words)

	Monitor on Psychology - Jury instructions in civil cases
		Jury instructions are a crucial part of any criminal or civil trial because they present the law to be followed in the verdict.
		The standard used for determining the negligence of the defendant required a finding by the jury that the defendant “contributed in whole or in part to the cause of [the plaintiff’s] injury.” The defendant requested that this same standard be used to determine the contributory negligence of the plaintiff.
		However, the trial court instructed the jury to find contributory negligence if the plaintiff committed negligent acts that “directly contributed to cause his injury,” consistent with the contributory negligence instructions from the state in which the case was tried.
	www.apa.org /monitor/sep06/jn.html (784 words)

	Information/Instructions for Reporting for Jury Duty
		The jury overflow parking lots are City Lot 297 on 7th south of G Street, the County Public Lot at 725 7th Street, County Lot B at 730 I Street, and the City Hall lot located at 10th and I Streets.
		Presentation of your valid jury parking permit/badge will be required or you may be required to validate parking by writing your jury badge number on the parking lot ticket or coupon.
		The whole idea of a jury is to come to a decision after full and frank discussion of the evidence and the instructions, based on calm, unbiased reasoning.
	www.saccourt.com /jury/instructions/juryduty.asp (2426 words)

	O.J. Jury Instructions By Judge Lance Ito
		All right, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard all the evidence, and it is now my duty to instruct you on the law that applies to this case.
		It is also my personal policy that you will have these instructions in their written form in the jury room to refer to during the course of your deliberations.
		It is for you, the jury, to find from all the evidence whether or not the facts assumed in a hypothetical question have been proved.
	www.lectlaw.com /files/cas62.htm (4988 words)

	U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama - U.S. v. Scrushy
		Jury Charge, delivered June 22, 2005, after a jury member was released for health reasons and replaced by an alternate.
		Shortly after the answer is provided to the jury, a copy of it and the jury's question will be added to the case's docket sheet.
		If the jury returns to the courtroom to have the answer to their question read to them or to listen to portions of the evidence, the court’s staff will notify the attorneys and the wire services at least 20 minutes before the hearing is held.
	www.alnd.uscourts.gov /scrushy (666 words)

	Jury Instructions, Misleading/Confusing
		Jury should have been instructed that co-defendants were accomplices as a matter of law.
		Convictions for possession of precursor and methamphetamine reversed and remanded with instructions to dismiss.
		Jury Instructions were erroneous as they failed to require proof of the specific crime alleged in the Information.
	www.ok.gov /~oids/Jury_Inst_Mislead.htm (1204 words)

	California Courts: Guide to California Jury Service: Civil Jury Instructions Resource Center
		Comprehensive, legally accurate civil jury instructions that are readily understood by the average juror.
		The official instructions are the culmination of years of work by the Task Force on Jury Instructions to draft comprehensive, legally accurate jury instructions that are readily understood by the average juror.
		Text of Rules 10.58, 2.1050, and 2.1055 regarding the approval, use, and format of the Judicial Council Civil Jury Instructions.
	www.courtinfo.ca.gov /jury/civiljuryinstructions/index.htm (163 words)

	Superior Court Law Library - Jury Instructions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Criminal Jury Instructions for the District of Columbia.
		Standard Jury Instructions in Misdemeanor Cases: Effective April 16, 1981 as Amended March 30, 2000 and Florida Grand Jury Handbook and Grand Jury Instructions: Effective April 16, 1981 as Amended February 14, 1991.
		Cooper, William S. Kentucky Instructions to Juries: A Text on the Law Relating to Instructions to Juries in Civil and Criminal Cases: With Forms of Instructions and Notes of Cases Bearing on Such Instructions.
	www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov /lawlibrary/Documents/Html/Bibliographies/JuryInstructions.asp (842 words)

	Draft Comment #01 on the Proposed Criminal Jury Instructions
		Then the first instruction would be to read the handbook with jury instruction drafting guide, so that the remaining instructions could be limited to instructions specific to the case, and the juror could see how those instructions were developed.
		The instructions are still using "legalese", and if they make an effort to define legal terms in ordinary language, the definitions are still too abstract for most citizens, who are not receiving the background in law that their grandparents and great-grandparents got.
		Now one of the instructions in the draft is the common one against consulting dictionaries, statutes, and other legal educational materials, but that is precisely what is needed to make the instructions understandable and the jury process just and effective, and thus the instruction is incompatible with the objective of the project.
	www.constitution.org /jury/pj/comment01crim.htm (1219 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The jury instructions address issues including inducement to infringe, marking, notice, patent misuse, and settlement and accord, as well as patent infringement and willfulness.
		Uniform jury instructions are quite useful in this effort, but the fact that they are uniform makes them of limited use when determining appropriate instructions in a specific case.
		Uniform jury instructions are of little assistance when the instructions must entail construction of a specific patent.
	www2.mnbar.org /mipla/jury (378 words)

	Delaware Model Jury Instructions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Members of the jury, now it is time for me to instruct you about the law that you must follow in deciding this case.
		If, under the Court's instructions, you find plaintiff is entitled to damages, in fixing the amount of such damages you may not include and/or add to an otherwise just award any sum for purposes of punishing the defendant or to set an example.
		Instructions regarding damages are given for your guidance in the event that the evidence leads you to find in favor of the plaintiffs.
	www2.mnbar.org /mipla/jury/delaware.html (11270 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro > Danielle's Disappearance -- Jury instructions a crucial and often subtle ...
		The judge's reading of the jury instructions – 63 pages of carefully crafted legalese – may be among the least fascinating aspects of a two-month trial memorable for its titillating testimony and complex scientific evidence.
		The purpose of the instructions is to explain to jurors what the law is, and they tend to rely on those guidelines quite heavily.
		Legal experts say the instructions are rarely a cause for deadlocked juries because jurors are told to send a note to the judge if they have trouble understanding something.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/danielle/20020811-9999_1n11jury.html (795 words)

	Jury Instructions
		He was explaining why the committee that prepared California's criminal pattern jury instructions chose not to rewrite jury instructions in plain English.
		This set of instructions was published by the Michigan Institute of Continuing Legal Education as Standard Criminal Jury Instructions (2d ed, 1991).
		Standard civil jury instructions in Michigan are written by the Standard Jury Instruction Committee appointed by the Michigan Supreme Court.
	www.michbar.org /generalinfo/plainenglish/columns/jury.html (863 words)

	Plain Language: Before and After - Jury instructions
		Most jury instructions -- long winded collections of complex sentences, arcane definitions and Talmudic distinctions -- are all but impenetrable to lay people.
		Echoing such observations was a recent description in The National Law Journal of a judge who told jurors that a murder conviction required "malice aforethought." Unfortunately though, the jury interpreted this instruction to mean that the murder had to be committed with a mallet.
		Forty percent of capital jurors wrongly believed that their jury instructions required them to accompany a conviction with a death sentence, according to a study by the Northeastern University's Capital Jury Project.
	www.plainlanguage.gov /examples/before_after/jury.cfm (739 words)

	Watt's Model Jury Instructions Main Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He or she will decide the case based on the evidence at trial, and the instructions on the law from the trial judge.
		The time to decide the case is after, not before you have heard all of the evidence, and listened to the lawyers on both sides and to my instructions about the law that applies to the evidence.
		You are not allowed to pick and choose amongst my instructions on the law, nor substitute your own views or those of others about what the law is or should be.
	www.criminallawyers.ca /juryinstructions/htmlinstructions.htm (10631 words)

	Court TV Online - T R I A L S -- Binion
		It is your duty as jurors to follow these instructions and to apply the rules of law to the facts as you find them from the evidence.
		For that reason, you are not to single out any certain sentence or any individual point or instruction and ignore the others, but you are to consider all the instructions a whole and regard each in the light of all the others.
		For if the jury believes from the evidence that the act constituting the killing has been preceded by and has been the result of premeditation, no matter how rapidly the act follows premeditation, it is premeditated.
	www.courttv.com /trials/binion/documents/jury-instructions.html (4724 words)

	Waco Jury Instructions
		I instruct you that Conspiracy to Murder Officers and Employees of the United States is a crime of violance; and Second: That the Defendant under consideration knowingly used or carried a firearm during and in relation to the Defendant's commission of the crime alleged in Count One of the Indictment.
		Juries have the duty to judge whether the law is constitutional, and if so, whether it is correctly applied to the particular case.
		The judge omits the instruction that the jurors have the right to question witnesses, although that instruction was needed at the commencement of the trial rather than at the end of it.
	www.constitution.org /waco/juryinst.htm (9294 words)

	Civil Resource Manual 25 Animal Drug Prosecutions -- Sample Jury Instructions
		Members of the jury, the instructions I gave you at the beginning of the trial and during the trial remain in effect.
		NOTE: Before giving this instruction, the court must make a preliminary finding that there was a conspiracy involving the declarant and the defendant, and that the statement or act was made or done in the course of and in furtherance of the conspiracy.
		You will take this form to the jury room, and when each of you has agreed on the verdicts, your foreperson will fill in the form with your verdict as to each Count, sign and date the form, and advise the marshal or bailiff that you are ready to return to the courtroom.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title4/civ00025.htm (4031 words)

	Contemporary Topics - U.S. Courts Educational Outreach
		It is your duty as jurors to follow the law as stated in all of the instructions of the Court and to apply these rules of law to the facts as you find them to be from the evidence received during the trial.
		You were chosen as a juror for this trial in order to evaluate all of the evidence received and to decide each of the factual questions presented by the allegations brought by the government in the indictment and the plea of not guilty by the Defendant.
		If the jury views the evidence in the case as reasonably permitting either of two conclusions—one of innocence, the other of guilt—the jury must, of course, adopt the conclusion of innocence.
	www.uscourts.gov /outreach/topics/knock/juryinstructions.html (1397 words)

	CALIFORNIA / Jury instructions made simple / Panel to vote today on 700 newly worded judge's directives
		Instructions contain the legal rules jurors are supposed to apply as they work toward a verdict.
		Claims of confusing or misunderstood jury instructions are a recurring issue in criminal appeals, and occasionally prompt a court to overturn a conviction.
		The legal principles contained in the jury instructions, she said, are "the glue that holds the society together.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/26/BAG46ED67D1.DTL (1234 words)

	Cincinnati Law Library Association: Jury Instructions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These instructions can be provided by the two sides in the case and there are a number of sources for jury instructions.
		The Law Library has print jury instructions from various states and Federal court circuits that can be borrowed by our Association members.
		The Ohio Jury Instructions (OJI) are written by a committee of the Ohio Judicial Conference and are available free via Casemaker for members of the Ohio State Bar Association.
	www.hamilton-co.org /cinlawlib/resources/juryinstructions.html (381 words)

	JURY INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1. - 1.99
		The pronoun form as used in these instructions, if applicable as shown by the text of the instruction and the evidence, applies to a [corporation] [or] [public entity] [or] [business association].
		Unless otherwise stated, the instructions apply to the cross-complainant and cross-defendant in the same way that they apply to the plaintiff and defendant.
		Therefore, whenever reference is made in these instructions to "plaintiff" or "defendant", such reference relates to each party in that capacity.
	www.netlawlibraries.com /jurinst/ji_001.html (757 words)

	Connecticut Selected Jury Instructions Criminal
		This collection of criminal jury instructions has been compiled to assist judges in their presentation of charges to the jury.
		The use of the jury instructions is entirely discretionary and their promulgation by the Judicial Branch is not a guarantee of their legal sufficiency.
		It is improper under this principle for the court to submit to the jury a method of committing the crime charged that is not supported by the evidence.
	www.jud.state.ct.us /CriminalJury (1280 words)

	Accident Claims - Las Vegas Lawyer - Las Vegas Attorney - Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyer
		The instructions may define negligence or tell the jurors how they must decide if they find certain facts to be true.
		Jury instructions can be critical to a case.
		Different instructions may be used in your case and these are only provided to illustrate the possible Jury Instructions which could be used in your Nevada personal injury lawsuit.
	www.accidentclaims.org /jury.html (3675 words)

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