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This document is a page of introductory jury instructions from a court case (1:20-cr-00330-PAE), filed on December 17, 2021. The judge explicitly outlines the jury's duty to accept the law exactly as the court presents it, setting aside personal opinions or conflicting legal arguments from attorneys. The jury is instructed to consider all instructions together and is permitted to take a copy of them into the jury room for deliberation.

This legal document, filed on December 19, 2021, is a specific instruction (No. 58) from a judge to a jury in a criminal case. The judge explicitly directs the jurors not to consider any potential punishment for the defendant, Ms. Maxwell, during their deliberations. The document clarifies that the jury's only role is to determine guilt or innocence based solely on the evidence presented by the Government, while the duty of sentencing belongs exclusively to the judge.

This document is a jury instruction, designated as Instruction No. 4, from a legal case filed on December 19, 2021. The judge directs the jury to base their verdict solely on their own recollection of the evidence, not on the arguments of the lawyers for the Government or the Defendant. It clarifies that statements from counsel, the judge's comments, legal objections, and side-bar conferences are not evidence and should not influence their determination of the facts.