410-01.pdf

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Source set: house-oversight-doj
Pages: 93
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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 410-1 Filed 11/04/21 Page 1of 93 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -Vv. - S2 20 Cr. 330 (AJN) GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant. JOINT REQUESTS TO CHARGE DOJ-OGR-00006067

Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 410-1 Filed 11/04/21 INTRODUCTORY INSTRUCTIONS Role of the Court You have now heard all of the evidence in the case, as well as the final arguments of the lawyers for the parties. My duty at this point is to instruct you as to the law. It is your duty to accept these instructions of law and apply them to the facts as you determine them. On these legal matters, you must take the law as I give it to you. Regardless of any opinion that you may have as to what the law may be—or ought to be—it would violate your sworn duty to base a verdict upon any other view of the law than that which I give you. If an attorney or anyone else at trial has stated a legal principle different from any that I state to you in my instructions, it is my instructions that you must follow. You should not single out any instruction alone stating the law, but you should consider my instructions as a whole when you retire to deliberate in the jury room. You may take a copy of these instructions with you into the jury room. Adapted from the charge of the Hon. Alison J. Nathan in United States v. Jones, 16 Cr. 533 (AJN) and in United States v. Pizarro, 17 Cr. 151 (AJN). Page 2 of 93 DOJ-OGR- 00006068

Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 410-1 Filed 11/04/21 Page 3of 93 Role of the Jury Your role is to pass upon and decide the fact issues that are in the case. You, the members of the jury, are the sole and exclusive judges of the facts. You pass upon the weight of the evidence or lack of evidence; you determine the credibility of the witnesses; you resolve such conflicts as there may be in the testimony; and you draw whatever reasonable inferences you decide to draw solely based on the evidence and from the facts as you …

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