Cal. Evidence Code § 502 : California Evidence Code — Burden Of Proof; Burden Of Producing Evidence; Presumptions And Inferences — Burden Of Proof — General — Jury instructions

Current through the 2016 Legislative Session

The court on all proper occasions shall instruct the jury as to which party bears the burden of proof on each issue and as to whether that burden requires that a party raise a reasonable doubt concerning the existence or nonexistence of a fact or that he establish the existence or nonexistence of a fact by a preponderance of the evidence, by clear and convincing proof, or by proof beyond a reasonable doubt.