Conn. Civ. Jury Instr. 2.1-3

You are to determine what the facts are by careful consideration of all the evidence presented

and based solely upon the evidence, giving to each part of the evidence the weight you consider

it deserves in reaching your ultimate conclusion. When I say evidence, I include the following:

<List only those applicable:>

• testimony by witnesses in court, including what you may have observed in

any demonstrations they presented during their testimony,

• testimony by witnesses by way of the reading of transcripts or the showing

of videotapes,

• exhibits that have been received into evidence as full exhibits, including

any pictures or documents that are full exhibits,

• your observations at the viewing of the scene,

• facts that the parties have stipulated to,

• facts that I have told you are to be taken as true by judicial notice,

• facts admitted as true in pleadings,

• facts admitted in response to requests to admit.

The testimonial evidence includes both what was said on direct examination and what was said

on cross examination, without regard to which party called the witness.

The following are not evidence, and you must not consider them as evidence in deciding the

facts of this case:

• opening statements and closing arguments by the attorneys,

• questions and objections of the attorneys, and

• testimony or exhibits that I instruct you to disregard.

[<Insert if applicable:> Additionally, testimony or exhibits that I told you were to be used only

for a limited purpose are not evidence for any other purpose.]

Your duty is to decide the case based on what has been admitted into evidence in this courtroom

only, and not on any information about the issues that was not presented into evidence in this

courtroom.

[<Insert if applicable:> It is my right to make comments to you on the evidence, but where I do

that, such comments are merely to suggest to you what point of law or what controversy I am

speaking about. If I refer to certain facts or certain evidence in the case, do not assume that I

mean to emphasize those facts or that evidence and do not limit your consideration to the things

that I may have mentioned.] Likewise, you should attach no importance to it if I should mention

one party more than the other. If I incorrectly state anything about the evidence in relation to

what you remember, you should apply your own recollection and correct my error. In the same

way, what any of the lawyers may have said in their respective summaries to you as to the facts

or evidence in the case should have weight with you only if their recollection agrees with your

own; otherwise, it is your own recollection of the facts and evidence which should have weight

in your deliberations.