California nonprofit pushes states to make jury instructions more broadly available
California nonprofit pushes states to make jury instructions more broadly available Image from Shutterstock.com. Since his early days as a lawyer, Wisconsin criminal defense attorney Chad Lanning has been troubled that the state’s jury instructions were not freely available to the legal community or the general public. He has also long thought it was odd that the materials essential to the functioning of the justice system could be copyrighted by the University of Wisconsin. “It just always seemed wrong on the most basic level,” Lanning says. As Lanning rose to leadership in the Wisc...
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