Colorado's second-highest court last week upheld the recently reworded definition of "reasonable doubt" that appears in the template jury instructions for criminal trials, which generated controversy ...

Comments: While the PBI jury instruction correctly included the definition of the CET adopted in Tincher, it added to that definition that to find defect the jury must also find the defect was a ...

But the jury instructions do reflect discussion among ... The instructions also lay out how jurors should approach the hard-to-define concept of reasonable doubt. "The law recognizes that, in ...

The “every element necessary to make it safe” jury charge. The instruction that the manufacturer ... along with the correct definition of defect: “The product in question had a defect ...

during the jury selection of his trial at the Alexandria Federal Courthouse in Alexandria, Va., July 31, 2018. Dana Verkouteren via AP Jurors also asked the court to define "shelf company," and ...

At court trials, judges and lawyers depend on Wisconsin's standard jury instructions to help frame issues, define offenses and guide jurors' understanding of the law, so they might reach just ...

Special Counsel Jack Smith went toe-to-toe with U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon over her requests for jury instructions in ... the unambiguous definition of what constitutes personal records ...

MINNEAPOLIS — For an incident that unfolded in mere seconds, the jury that will decide the fate ... the actor is aware of and disregards." The definition comes from the State vs Engle, a case ...

But it did not define the word “corruptly,” despite ... as they worked their way through jury instructions in Madigan’s case. Testimony in the trial is set to resume Monday after a two ...