DE · jury_instructions
Del. P.J.I. Civ. § 24.1
Sympathy
SYMPATHY
Your verdict must be based solely on the evidence in the case. Your decision-making must not be governed by prejudice, sympathy, passion, or any other motive
except the fair and impartial consideration of the evidence. You must not, under any
circumstances, allow any sympathy that you might have for any of the parties to
influence you in any way in arriving at your verdict.
I am not telling you not to sympathize with the parties. It is only natural and
human to sympathize with persons involved in litigation. But you must not allow
that sympathy to enter into your consideration of the case or to influence your
verdict.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.delaware.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- civ-2025-10-22
- Content hash
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