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Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instruction 1A.17
Cautionary Instruction Following Judicial Questioning or Calling of Witness
You should not assume that because I [call a witness to testify and] ask questions of a witness that the witness is more or less trustworthy than other witnesses or that answers to my questions are more or less correct or important than answers to other questions. And you should not assume that because I [called a witness or] asked questions that I have any opinion about the case. I [called this witness and] asked some questions to see if some additional testimony might clarify or fill out some things for you. This may or may not have been helpful to you. It is your job, and yours alone, to evaluate the evidence and to decide what witnesses to believe and what weight to give to testimony.
History
Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions 1A.17, dated Added 1999. Prepared by the Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions Committee; published by the Alaska Court System. The Alaska Court System states that these instructions "have not been approved or promulgated by any court or the Alaska Bar Association."
Provenance
- Source
- courts.alaska.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
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