Jury instruction

After thinking about it for thirty year, or so, I finally realize that jury instructions are much more important and deserve more work than I had ever previously considered.

CR 51 Instructions to jury; objections

(1) At any time before or during the trial, the court may direct the parties to tender written instructions. At the close of the evidence any party may move the court to instruct the jury on any matter appropriate to the issues in the action.

(2) After considering any tendered instructions and motions to instruct and before the commencement of the argument, the court shall show the parties the written instructions it will give the jury, allowing them an opportunity to make objections out of the hearing of the jury. Thereafter, and before argument to the jury, the written instructions shall be given.

 

(3) No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he has fairly and adequately presented his position by an offered instruction or by motion, or unless he makes objection before the court instructs the jury, stating specifically the matter to which he objects and the ground or grounds of his objection.

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Tom Fox, J. D.
Southern Specialty Law Publishing Company
Louisville, Kentucky

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