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They don t get credit, but a California nonprofit s threat forced Wisconsin jury instructions to become public Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © The Palm Beach Post . At court trials, judges and lawyers depend on Wisconsin s standard jury instructions to help frame issues, define offenses and guide jurors understanding of the law, so they might reach just verdicts. But as crucial as the instructions are, they were until recently hard to obtain, almost like a secret, protected code. Unlike the state s statutes and appellate rulings, which are online or in books in many libraries, the jury instructions were only available in bound volumes in some law libraries or on CDs that cost $550 for the full set, plus fees for annual updates.

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