US-CA8 · jury_instructions
8th Cir. Model Jury Instr. (Criminal) 3.02
Duty of Jury
It is your duty to find from the evidence what the facts are. You will then apply the law, as I give it to you, to those facts. You must follow my instructions on the law, even if you thought the law was different or should be different.
[You should not be influenced by any person’s race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or economic circumstances. You must decide the case solely on the evidence and the law before you and must not be influenced by any personal likes or dislikes, opinions, prejudices, sympathy, or biases, including unconscious bias. Unconscious biases are stereotypes, attitudes, or preferences that people may consciously reject but may express without conscious awareness, control, or intention. Like conscious bias, unconscious bias, too, can affect how we evaluate information and make decisions.
The law demands of you a just verdict, unaffected by anything except the evidence, your common sense, and the law as I give it to you.
Revised October 2021.
Provenance
- Source
- juryinstructions.ca8.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-19
- Edition
- 2026-08-19
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