Colorado's second-highest court last week upheld the recently reworded definition of "reasonable doubt" that appears in the ...

Court affirms convictions for rape and aggravated sodomy over defendant's contentions of jury instruction error, improper admission of prior acts evidence, and ineffective assistance of counsel ...

A May 29 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) questions the legality of jury instructions in former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York. “So they get a jury, only 4 ...

Languages: English. The judge's instructions to the jury panel that will decide the outcome of former President Donald Trump's business fraud case will likely have "a lot of power," according to ...

After settling some housekeeping issues, he began delivering the instructions to the jury. New York state courts have a standard set of jury instructions for criminal trials, and Merchan hewed ...

Several suggested that the jury instructions were an attempt to influence the verdict. In fact, reporting indicates that Trump's lawyer agreed days earlier that the instructions were ordinary.

A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below: Post-Summation Instructions Introduction Members of the jury, I will now instruct you on the law. I will first ...

They are slated to re-hear at least a portion of the jury instructions from Judge Juan Merchan when proceedings begin Thursday at 9:30 a.m. EDT, as well as listen to portions of the trial ...

The most common solution is a jury instruction. The trial judge admits the evidence and then instructs the jury to consider it against one defendant but not another. If we assume, as courts typically ...