Is a requested instruction in a personal injury trial "perspective" or "objectionative"?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Weeden v. Johnson, No. 2:13-cv-02667-JKS (E.D. Cal. 2014):
perspective."). Because the requested instruction "invite[d] the jury to draw inferences favorable to one of the parties from specified items of evidence, it is considered argumentative and therefore should not [have] be[en] given." People v. Earp, 978 P.2d 15, 54 (Cal. 1999) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted).
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