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C HAPTER 300 A DMONITORY I NSTRUCTIONS

PJC 300.1 Instructions to Jury Panel before Voir Dire Examination. . . . . . . 3

PJC 300.2 Instructions to Jury after Jury Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

PJC 300.3 Charge of the Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

PJC 300.3A Charge of the Court—Twelve-Member Jury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

PJC 300.3B Charge of the Court—Six-Member Jury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

PJC 300.4 Additional Instruction for Bifurcated Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

PJC 300.5 Instructions to Jury after Verdict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

PJC 300.6 Instruction to Jury If Permitted to Separate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

PJC 300.7 Instruction If Jury Disagrees about Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

PJC 300.8 Circumstantial Evidence (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

PJC 300.9 Instructions to Deadlocked Jury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

PJC 300.10 Privilege—Generally No Inference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

PJC 300.11 Fifth Amendment Privilege—Adverse Inference

May Be Considered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

PJC 300.12 Parallel Theories on Damages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

PJC 300.13 Proximate Cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

PJC 300.14 Instruction on Spoliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

PJC 300.15 Instruction for Deposition Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

PJC 300.16 Instructions for Multilingual Jurors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

PJC 300.16A Contemporaneous Instruction on Witness Testimony for

Multilingual Jurors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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