In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report No. 2014-06

Summary

The court authorized amended standard jury instructions governing justifiable deadly and non-deadly force for publication and use. It declined to authorize a proposed note concerning the forcible-felony instruction because the note conflicted with existing law, and it referred the deadly-force instruction back to the Committee to consider the statutory duty-to-retreat provision. The instructions became effective when the opinion became final.