DE · jury_instructions
Del. P.J.I. Crim. No. 2.11
Attorney’s Belief or Opinion
ATTORNEY'S BELIEF OR OPINION
The role of an attorney is to zealously and effectively advance the claims of
the party the attorney represents within the bounds of the law. An attorney may
argue all reasonable inferences from evidence in the record. However, what an
attorney states in opening or closing argument is not evidence. Arguments are
merely made to assist you in organizing the evidence and to suggest the logical
conclusion that may be reached from the evidence presented. The only evidence
which you should consider in reaching your verdict consists of testimony from
witnesses testifying from the witness stand and exhibits introduced through their
testimony.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.delaware.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- crim-2022-03-14
- Content hash
3a02999042e9379e6f88948d6c51eecfb6918b060fe938bf2b9c714c5f6790fd
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.