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14-6001. Duty to follow instructions.

            The law governing this case is contained in instructions that I am about to give you.  It is your duty to follow the law as contained in these instructions.  You must consider these instructions as a whole. You must not pick out one instruction or parts of an instruction and disregard others.  A copy of these instructions will be given to you when you begin your deliberations.

 

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            This is a proper instruction to be given in all cases.

[UJI Crim. 50.0; approved, effective September 1, 1975; as amended, effective November 1, 2003.]

 You are being directed to the most recent version of the statute which may not be the version considered at the time of the judgment.