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"Any person who fails to appear ... or who fails to show good cause for noncompliance with the [Jury] summons may be fined not more than $1000 or imprisoned not more than three days, or both."

You are required to provide documentation from a physician verifying that a mental or physical condition renders you unfit for jury service for the remainder of the jury year. Jury service would otherwise cause undue or extreme physical or financial hardship to you or a person under your care or supervision.

The Ohio Jury Instructions (OJI) are written by a committee of the Ohio Judicial Conference. The Law Library has the OJI in its Westlaw database, Lexis ebooks (Overdrive) as well as in print. You can buy Ohio Jury Instructions in print or electronically from LexisNexis.

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).

The new plain English jury instructions are a major contribution to the Judicial Council's historic efforts to reform the California jury system. The new simplified jury instructions will help ensure that jurors understand the law and apply it correctly during their deliberations.

If the trial judge determines that the confession was voluntarily made it shall be admitted in evidence and the trial judge shall permit the jury to hear relevant evidence on the issue of voluntariness and shall instruct the jury to give such weight to the confession as the jury feels it deserves under all the ...