|
2.1-2 Duty to Follow the Law
Revised to January 1, 2008
It is your duty to follow my
instructions and conscientiously apply the law as I give it to you to the
facts as you find them in order to arrive at your ultimate verdict. If you
should have a different idea of what the law is or even what you feel it
ought to be, you must disregard your own notions and apply the law as I give
it to you. The parties are counting on having their claims decided
according to particular legal standards that are the same for everyone, and
those are the standards I will give you and that you must follow. If what
counsel said about the law differs from what I tell you, you will dismiss
from your minds what they may have said to you. You must decide this case
based only on the law that I furnish to you and on the basis of all of the
law as I give it to you regardless of the order of my instructions. You
must not single out any particular instruction or give it more or less
emphasis than any other, but rather must apply all of my instructions on the
law that apply to the facts as you find them.
|
