Wisconsin Grand Jury Instruction

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This form is a sample jury instruction wherein the court instructs the jury that the Grand Jury's indictment is not evidence of guilt but merely an accusation, and that defendant is presumed innocent. You must ascertain whether this sample instruction complies with the law in your jurisdiction.

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(1) Members of the jury, now it is time for me to instruct you about the law you must follow in deciding this case. (2) I will start by explaining your duties and the general rules that apply in every criminal case. (3) Then I will explain the elements of the crimes that the defendant is accused of committing.

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.

1005 NEGLIGENCE: DEFINED A person is not using ordinary care and is negligent, if the person, without intending to do harm, does something (or fails to do something) that a reasonable person would recognize as creating an unreasonable risk of injury or damage to a person or property.

Jury instructions should ideally be brief, concise, non-repetitive, relevant to the case's details, understandable to the average juror, and should correctly state the law without misleading the jury or inviting unnecessary speculation.

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 Civil, Criminal, and Children's Jury Instructions Committees are standing committees of the Wisconsin Judicial Conference. These committees prepare model jury instructions for Wisconsin circuit court judges. Current committee members are listed on the Wisconsin Judicial Conference committee list.

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.

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Wisconsin Grand Jury Instruction