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2025 California Code
Evidence Code - EVID
DIVISION 5 - BURDEN OF PROOF; BURDEN OF PRODUCING EVIDENCE; PRESUMPTIONS AND INFERENCES
CHAPTER 1 - Burden of Proof
ARTICLE 1 - General
Section 502.
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CA Ev Code § 502 (2025)
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502. 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.
(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
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