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Evidence Spring 2026

OPTIONAL: Evidentiary Instructions and the Jury as Other, 65 STAN. L. REV. 407 (2013)

David Alan Sklansky

This excerpt provides a more recent update on the research regarding limiting instructions. It concludes that limiting instructions "work better when the judge gives the jury a reason to follow them, when they are given at the end of the trial, and when jurors are asked to deliberate before returning a verdict"