Does the record need to show who requested the instructions?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Regalado v. Callaghan, 207 Cal.Rptr.3d 712, 3 Cal.App.5th 582 (Cal. App. 2016):
record does not show who requested the instructions. (Faulk v. Soberanes (1961) 56 Cal.2d 466, 471, 14 Cal.Rptr. 545, 363 P.2d 593 [appellant ... has the burden to present a record sufficiently complete to establish that the claimed errors were not invited by her, and in the absence of such a showing she may not properly complain].)
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