CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 5010
Taking Notes During the Trial
If you have taken notes during the trial, you may take your notebooks
with you into the jury room.
Y ou may use your notes only to help you remember what happened
during the trial. Y our independent recollection of the evidence should
govern your verdict. Y ou should not allow yourself to be influenced by
the notes of other jurors if those notes differ from what you remember.
At the end of the trial, your notes will be [collected and
destroyed/collected and retained by the court but not as a part of the
case record/[specify other disposition]].
New April 2004; Revised February 2005, April 2007, December 2007
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2022
- Content hash
d35c1a497c69eb0fe7376fa1094fbe38efd5cbf46de2e681e816bc384f4520dc
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