CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 606
Legal Malpractice Causing Criminal Conviction—Actual
Innocence
[Name of plaintiff] alleges that [name of defendant] was negligent in
defending [him/her/ nonbinary pronoun] in a criminal case, and as a result,
[he/she/nonbinary pronoun] was wrongly convicted. To establish this
claim, [name of plaintiff] must first prove that [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun]
was actually innocent of the charges for which [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun]
was convicted.
New April 2009
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
2549626a4589675edbc8dff494ecb860db0a4d1044f9924b0a43eb4ccbd2068b
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