Trials-Jury_Instructions-Captions.xml
Trials-Jury_Instructions-Captions.xml
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<p begin="00:00:00.25" end="00:00:05.30">This is your legal minute, brought to you by the Ohio State Bar Foundation.</p>
<p begin="00:00:06.00" end="00:00:14.00">After all the testimony, evidence and arguments, the judge must tell the jury what law to apply to the facts of the case.</p>
<p begin="00:00:14.10" end="00:00:19.10">That process is called the “jury charge” or the “jury instruction.”</p>
<p begin="00:00:19.20" end="00:00:24.00">Basically, the judge tells the jury members that they determine the facts of the case,</p>
<p begin="00:00:24.10" end="00:00:32.00">what witnesses should or should not be believed, and that the judge provides them with the law to use to arrive at their final decision.</p>
<p begin="00:00:32.10" end="00:00:40.30">In short, the jury must determine the facts and then apply the laws the court provides it to arrive at a verdict.</p>
<p begin="00:00:40.40" end="00:00:44.60">A jury is not allowed to question the law provided by the judge.</p>
<p begin="00:00:44.70" end="00:00:48.60">The jurors must accept that law, and apply it judiciously.</p>
<p begin="00:00:48.70" end="00:00:52.80">Jury instructions are often long and tedious.</p>
<p begin="00:00:52.90" end="00:01:01.10">Many judges supplement the oral giving of instructions by providing each juror with a written copy of the instructions.</p>
<p begin="00:01:01.20" end="00:01:08.00">This legal minute is brought to you by the Ohio State Bar Foundation.</p>
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