Criminal
Jul. 29, 2000
Ending Legalese
The laudable goal is making the new instructions more comprehensible to jurors, the vast majority of whom are not lawyers.
CALJIC's monopoly on the jury-instruction market may be coming to an end. For decades the "California Jury Instructions, Criminal" have been used nearly exclusively in California criminal trials. Now, a task force of the California Judicial Council has disseminated a draft of proposed criminal ...
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