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2019 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PART 2 - OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
TITLE 7 - OF PROCEEDINGS AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE TRIAL AND BEFORE JUDGMENT
CHAPTER 2 - The Trial
Section 1096a.
Universal Citation: CA Penal Code § 1096a (2019)
1096a.
In charging a jury, the court may read to the jury Section 1096, and no further instruction on the subject of the presumption of innocence or defining reasonable doubt need be given.
(Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 46, Sec. 2. Effective July 3, 1995.)
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