CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 5018
Audio or Video Recording and Transcription
A [sound/video] recording has been admitted into evidence, and a
transcription of the recording has been provided to you. The recording
itself, not the transcription, is the evidence. The transcription is not an
official court reporter’s transcript. The transcription was prepared by a
party only for the purpose of assisting the jury in following the [sound/
video] recording. The transcription may not be completely accurate. It
may contain errors, omissions, or notations of inaudible portions of the
recording. Therefore, you should use the transcription only as a guide to
help you in following along with the recording. If there is a discrepancy
between your understanding of the recording and the transcription, your
understanding of the recording must prevail.
[[Portions of the recording have been deleted.] [The transcription [also]
contains strikeouts or other deletions.] Y ou must disregard any deleted
portions of the recording or transcription and must not speculate as to
why there are deletions or guess what might have been said or done.]
[For the video deposition(s) of [name(s) of deponent(s)], the transcript of
the court reporter is the official record that you should consider as
evidence.]
New December 2010; Revised June 2016
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2022
- Content hash
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