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If you are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant (drove) (operated) a motor vehicle on a highway while under the influence of an intoxicant, you should find the defendant guilty of Count 1. If you are not so satisfied, you must find the defendant not guilty of Count 1.

158 RECORDING PLAYED TO THE JURY You are about to (hear an audio recording) (hear and view an audiovisual recording). Recordings are proper evidence and you may consider them, just as any other evidence. Listen carefully; some parts may be hard to understand.

The judge issues a judge's charge to inform the jury how to act in deciding a case. The jury instructions provide something of a flowchart on what verdict jurors should deliver based on what they determine to be true. Put another way, "If you believe A (set of facts), you must find X (verdict).

170 CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE It is not necessary that every fact be proved directly by a witness or an exhibit. A fact may be proved indirectly by circumstantial evidence. Circumstantial evidence is evidence from which a jury may logically find other facts ing to common knowledge and experience.

When a party has the burden of proving any claim [or affirmative defense] by a preponderance of the evidence, it means you must be persuaded by the evidence that the claim [or affirmative defense] is more probably true than not true.

Party to a Crime Section 939.05 of the Criminal Code of Wisconsin provides that whoever is concerned in the commission of a crime is a party to that crime and may be convicted of that crime although that person did not directly commit it.