Pattern Jury Instructions
17th Judicial Circuit Court (Florida)
Section 0: Intro

0 PJI 0 | INTRODUCTORY INSTRUCTION

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA
_______________, Plaintiff, vs. _______________, Defendant.		CIRCUIT CIVIL DIVISION 09 CASE NO.: CACE

JURY INSTRUCTIONS

Members of the jury, I shall now instruct you on the law that you must follow in reaching your verdict. It is your duty as jurors to decide the issues, and only those issues, that I submit for determination by your verdict. In reaching your verdict, you should consider and weigh the evidence, decide the disputed issues of fact, and apply the law on which I shall instruct you, to facts as you find them from the evidence.

The evidence in this case consists of the sworn testimony of the witnesses, all exhibits received in evidence, and all facts that may be admitted or agreed to by the parties.

In determining the facts, you may draw reasonable inferences from the evidence. You may make deductions and reach conclusions which reason and common sense lead you to draw from the facts shown by the evidence in this case. But you should not speculate on any matters outside the evidence. (© 2022 // Florida // 17th Judicial Circuit Court.)

0 PJI 1 | BELIEVABILITY OF WITNESSES

a. General Considerations

In determining the believability of any witness and the weight to be given the testimony of any witness, you may properly consider

the demeanor of the witness while testifying;
the frankness or lack of frankness of the witness;
the intelligence of the witness;
any interest the witness may have in the outcome of the case;
the means and opportunity the witness had to know the facts about which the witness testified;
the ability of the witness to remember the matters about which the witness testified; and
the reasonableness of the testimony of the witness,

considered in the light of all the evidence in the case and in the light of your own experience and common sense.

b. Expert Witnesses

You have heard opinion testimony from a person referred to as an expert witness. Some of the testimony before you was in the form of opinions about certain technical subjects

You may accept such opinion testimony, reject it, or give it the weight you think it deserves, considering the knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education of the witness, the reasons given by the witness for the opinion expressed, and all the other evidence in the case.

0 PJI 2 | DEFINITION - GREATER WEIGHT (PREPONDERANCE) OF EVIDENCE AND BURDEN OF PROOF

0 PJI 3 | DEFINITION - GREATER WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE

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