Free Proposed Jury Instructions - District Court of Colorado - Colorado

Case 1:04-cr-00103-REB-MEH

Document 1096-4

Filed 03/30/2007

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INSTRUCTION NO. G-3 DUTY TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS You, as jurors, are the judges of the facts. But in determining what actually happened­that is, in reaching your decision as to the facts­it is your sworn duty to follow all of the rules of law as I explain them to you. You have no right to disregard or give special attention to any one instruction, or to question the wisdom or correctness of any rule I may state to you. You must not substitute or follow your own notion or opinion as to what the law is or ought to be. It is your duty to apply the law as I explain it to you, regardless of the consequences. However, you should not read into these instructions, or anything else I may have said or done, any suggestion as to what your verdict should be. That is entirely up to you. It is also your duty to base your verdict solely upon the evidence, without prejudice or sympathy. That was the promise you made and the oath you took.

Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions (Tenth Circuit), No. 1.04 (2005).