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Alaska Criminal Pattern Jury Instruction 1.20
Testimony of Participant in the Crime Charged - Determination By Judge
[Insert witness's name] was a participant in the crime[s] charged in this case. You should consider the testimony of this witness with distrust. This does not mean that you may arbitrarily disregard such testimony, but you should give it the weight you consider appropriate after examining it with care and caution and in light of all the evidence.
History
Alaska Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions 1.20, dated Revised 1999. Prepared by the Alaska Criminal 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
91054ad989dc2492922d238cf576c2c7ccdb7bd4273f62511891b1e8cba18106
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