• 2007 - After a View
  • K-5.08
    • Charge To Jury
    • Evidence
    • Closing Instructions
    • Closing Instructions
  • You have been permitted to view the _____ involved in this case solely to help you understand the evidence received during the trial and to assist you in weighing the evidence and determining the credibility of witnesses. A view of the ____ does not allow you to consider matters outside the evidence received in Court.

     

    While you need not shut your eyes to what you see when a view is allowed by the Court, your verdict must be within the limits of the evidence received. Your verdict cannot rest alone upon your view of the ________.

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    • Schmitt v. N. Improvement Co., 114 NW2d 713 (ND 1962)
    • State v. Rohrich, 135 NW2d 175, 180 (ND 1965)
    • State v. Schlickenmayer, 334 NW2d 196, 199-200 (ND 1983)
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