Big Caliber
New member
A couple of years ago I served on my first jury. I found it fascinating. We had to decide an "ADW" case, (assault w/ deadly weapon, a small wood little-league bat). (It might have been "AWD"). When we were sent to deliberate the case we were given oral and written instructions by the judge re: the particular laws that dealt with this case. Talk about an eye-opener! These pages laid out the law in very specific and easy to understand terms. You have no idea how difficult it can get to defend yourself or family in your own home using ANY kind of force w/o violating the law. However, those jury instructions spelled it out. I later asked the judge and my city atty if there is anything published out there that would make any or all of the penal code deciferable w/o having to attend law school. Nope. So I'm asking anyone here if they know where to access a criminal law publication that would "spell it out" like the jury instructions do?? Thanks.