Often this is because the jury does not follow the legal instructions.

Justice Bell indicated yesterday that he would hold close to a standard legal instruction.

Lay judges are appointed, and often require some legal instruction.

Today, a significant portion of police academy time is devoted to academic and legal instruction.

Detailed legal instruction on recordkeeping and protection followed in 1948.

Deliberations are expected to begin Wednesday after the judge gives legal instructions to the jurors.

The jurors seemed clear about their task, and it took them just four hours of deliberations after they were given legal instructions on Thursday.

Legal instructions for various criminal charges are now uniform statewide and carried on the Internet.

In 1892, the school moved into Boardman Hall, which was constructed specifically for legal instruction.

Yet that essential knowledge, generally assumed to come from parental teaching or religious or legal instruction, could turn out to have a quite different origin.

In 1845, William Horn Battle was named the first professor of law, and legal instruction began at the university.

The case and question method of legal instructions should not be, and is rarely, the only tool in the law professor's toolkit.

They said the poor physical surroundings, combined with unclear legal instructions and hours of waiting, apparently led some grand jurors not to take their duty seriously.

This aspect allows CATO to be used in legal instruction to train students.

As he had previously, Mr. Johnson attributed the verdict largely to the judge's legal instructions to the jury, and to the jurors themselves.

They said those notes had been purely hypothetical, as they tried to work through confusing legal instructions about the many questions they were required to answer.

It also asked Judge Lamberth to clarify some of the legal instructions he issued just before their deliberations began last Thursday.

But after each rejection, he gave the jury legal instructions that incorporated some of the defense criticism of Mr. Goldberg's arguments.

After both sides have presented their cases and made closing arguments, the judge gives the jury legal instructions; the jury then adjourns to deliberate in private.

In the early 1980s, CALI set the precedent for creation and use of computer-assisted legal instruction exercises.

His public legal instruction had the effect of creating a class of legally skilled non-priests (jurisprudentes), a sort of consultancy.

The case is expected to go to the jury on Thursday after Judge Royce C. Lamberth issues final legal instructions.

Judges, lawyers and lay observers have often learned how well - or how poorly - the jurors understood the evidence or obeyed the judge's legal instructions.

The judge read the complex legal instructions that defined the elements Mr. Pagones must have proved to establish that he was defamed.

The Qur'an is more concerned with moral guidance than legal instruction, and is considered the "sourcebook of Islamic principles and values".