How have juries in a criminal trial been instructed to not be biased against a defendant because they have been arrested and charged with a crime?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Thompson, A126546 (Cal. App. 2011):

instruction given in criminal trials. Jurors are presumed able to follow jury instructions, including this one. (See People v. Boyette (2002) 29 Cal.4th 381, 436.) Thus the jurors in this case were instructed: "You must not be biased against a defendant because [he] has been arrested for this offense, charged with a crime, or brought to trial. None of these circumstances is evidence of guilt and you must not infer or assume from any or all of them that a defendant is more likely to be guilty than not guilty." (See CALJIC No. 1.00.)

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