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In California, there are two main sets of civil jury instructions. One is an official plain-English set known as CACI (California Civil Jury Instructions). The other is BAJI (Book of Approved Jury Instructions). Either can be used.
Either before or after the closing arguments by the lawyers, the judge will explain the law that applies to the case to you. This is the judges instruction to the jury. You have to apply that law to the facts, as you have heard them, in arriving at your verdict.
The full cite should be to Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions (year). The short cite to particular instructions should be to CACI No. .
Jury instructions should ideally be brief, concise, non-repetitive, relevant to the cases details, understandable to the average juror, and should correctly state the law without misleading the jury or inviting unnecessary speculation.
The American system utilizes three types of juries: Investigative grand juries, charged with determining whether enough evidence exists to warrant a criminal indictment; petit juries (also known as a trial jury), which listen to the evidence presented during the course of a criminal trial and are charged with
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Jury service is a way for U.S. citizens to participate in the judicial process. Each court randomly selects qualified citizens from counties within the district for possible jury service. All courts use the respective state voter lists as a source of prospective jurors.
Rule 105. Limiting Evidence That Is Not Admissible Against Other Parties or for Other Purposes | Federal Rules of Evidence | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute.
The judge will instruct the jury in each separate case as to the law of that case. For example, in each criminal case, the judge will tell the jury, among other things, that a defendant charged with a crime is presumed to be innocent and the burden of proving his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is upon the Government.

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