VT · jury_instructions
Vermont Model Criminal Jury Instructions CR05-141
LIMITED RELEVANCE OF AGREEMENTS WITH THE STATE
The relevance of the agreements between the witnesses and the state is limited to issues of credibility. When you consider all the evidence with respect to the elements of the charge against (Def)_______________, you should not concern yourselves with either the potential penalty to be imposed against (witness)_______________ or the potential penalty to be imposed against (Def)_______________ if you find [him] [her] guilty. The potential penalty to be imposed is not a factor for you to consider when you deliberate over whether to find (Def)_______________ guilty or not guilty.
History
Vermont Model Criminal Jury Instructions CR05-141 (06/09/03). Prepared by the Vermont Model Criminal Jury Instructions committee; published on vtjuryinstructions.org, sponsored by the Vermont Bar Association. The committee states that the instructions have not been approved by the Vermont Supreme Court.
Provenance
- Source
- vtjuryinstructions.org
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
3f52dae246c554a4a1ae55da21ff4ae4e31b7e5ee4012b88b26b2076361008e6
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.