Does a court have a duty to revise or improve upon a statement of law?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Oeurn, A147159 (Cal. App. 2017):
appeal. " 'A trial court has no sua sponte duty to revise or improve upon an accurate statement of law without a request from counsel [citation], and failure to request clarification of an otherwise correct instruction forfeits the claim of error for purposes of appeal.' " (People v. Whalen (2013) 56 Cal.4th 1, 81-82, disapporoved on other grounds in People v. Romero and Self (2015) 62 Cal.4th 1, 44, fn. 17.)
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