US-CA5 · jury_instructions
5th Cir. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 1.53
SUMMARY WITNESS TESTIMONY AND CHARTS BASED ON OTHER
EVIDENCE
Summary testimony by a witness [and charts or summaries prepared or relied upon by the
witness] have been received into evidence for the purpose of explaining facts disclosed by
testimony and exhibits which are also in evidence in this case. If you find that such summary
testimony [and charts] correctly reflect the other evidence in the case, you may rely upon them.
But if and to the extent that you find they are not in truth summaries of the evidence in the case,
you are to disregard them. The best evidence of what occurred are the underlying records
themselves.
Provenance
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- 2026-08-19
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