31.   The burning question now is whether a single panel will have an easier time despite a difficult set of jury instructions.

32.   The decision Wednesday dealt with a jury instruction that the Supreme Court had already found to be valid in another case from Virginia that was decided two years ago.

33.   The issue in the case Thursday involved a former Louisiana jury instruction that the court had twice declared unconstitutional in rulings it did not explicitly make retroactive.

34.   The last word is expected to come from Petrocelli this morning, followed by jury instructions and then deliberations.

35.   The jurors asked Circuit Judge Richard Wennet to define burglary for them, and Wennet referred them to their written jury instructions.

36.   The jury instructions are another area where we need reform.

37.   The seven-man, five-woman Van Nuys Superior Court jury is working with a remarkably different set of jury instructions than at the first trial.

38.   The state-court conviction was overturned on appeal in April, based on an argument that Judge Lance Ito of Los Angeles Superior Court provided improper jury instructions.

39.   The state Supreme Court overturned the conviction because of improper jury instructions made by the judge in his case.

40.   This week the court concluded that even the revised jury instructions in his case were flawed and again overturned his death sentence.