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Instruction 3.570, Criminal Model Jury Instructions for Use in the District Court
Evidence with redacted material
EVIDENCE WITH REDACTED MATERIAL
You will note that there are black markings or redactions on exhibit
number(s)_____. Irrelevant information has been removed from the
document(s). You are not to speculate about what that irrelevant information
is. Do not consider it in any way. The Court has removed irrelevant material
to ensure the evidence is presented in a fair manner.
You are not to engage in any guesswork or speculation about what has
been excluded from your view. You are to decide the facts only from evidence
which is before you.
BEST PRACTICE: When material in a document has been redacted using a black marker or “white out,” the jury
should receive a photocopy of that page so that the redacted portions cannot be read by holding the paper up to a light
source.
History
Instruction 3.570, Criminal Model Jury Instructions for Use in the District Court (2018 Edition). Published by the Administrative Office of the District Court, District Court Department of the Trial Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on www.mass.gov. © 1988-2009 Administrative Office of the District Court; reproduced under its title-page permission ("You may freely reproduce or copy this work if you identify its source and any changes made to the original work"). Source: https://www.mass.gov/doc/3570-evidence-with-redacted-material/download. Changes made: the text is extracted from the published PDF (verified by three extraction engines); the running headers, page numbers and line layout are removed, and a closing NOTES section, where printed, is carried as the note.
Provenance
- Source
- mass.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
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