Cal. Rules of Court, rule 10.59 · Chapter 2. Judicial Council Advisory Committees and Task Forces
Advisory Committee on Criminal Jury Instructions
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Area of focus
The committee regularly reviews case law and statutes affecting jury instructions and makes recommendations to the Judicial Council for updating, amending, and adding topics to the council's criminal jury instructions.
(b) Membership
The committee must include at least one member from each of the following categories, and a majority of the members must be judges:
(1) Appellate court justice;
(2) Trial court judge;
(3) Lawyer whose primary area of practice is criminal defense;
(4) Deputy district attorney or other attorney who represents the People of the State of California in criminal matters; and
(5) Law professor whose primary area of expertise is criminal law.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 10.59 renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 6.59 effective July 1, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/ten/rule10_59
- Text hash
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- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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