Is it reasonable to assume that a jury has read all of the instructions?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Tauch, B257033 (Cal. App. 2015):

assume jurors are intelligent persons capable of understanding and correlating all the instructions." (People v. Hernandez (2010) 183 Cal.App.4th 1327, 1332 (Hernandez).)

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