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2024-05-29 18:47:58

Teri Kanefield on Nostr: If you are reading the jury instructions, a lot of the stuff here is to reduce the ...

If you are reading the jury instructions, a lot of the stuff here is to reduce the appealable issues. In the olden days, before jury instructions were standarized, defense lawyers would appeal and say "the reasonable doubt standard given by the judge was unclear or misleading."

Standardizing a lot of this language prevents the judge from misspeaking and using the wrong term.

Judges have something to read.

https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/People%20v.%20DJT%20Jury%20Instructions%20and%20Charges%20FINAL%205-23-24.pdf
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