Maine Jury Instruction Manual includes many new instructions and a new discussion of practice points for closing arguments. In addition to sample instructions, the manual offers expert commentary on convening the jury panel, jury selection and voir dire, and return of the verdict. It shows you how to present information in layman's terms, so you can communicate more effectively with jury panels.

This edition also provides extensive cross-references and online hyperlinks to the pattern criminal jury instructions for the District Courts of the First Circuit, with a cross-reference table and cross-references in related individual jury instructions. It includes new tables of cases and statutes, references to Maine-specific websites that have information on related jury issues, and a comprehensive index.

The eBook versions of this title feature links to Lexis Advance for further legal research options.