1.   A special committee has since recommended that judges instruct jurors not to ask for or accept legal definitions from lawyers serving on the jury.

2.   But Packard argues that the judge allowed improper testimony at the trial, and wrongly instructed jurors about how to resolve conflicting testimony between the victim and his mother.

3.   In instructing the jurors, the judge revealed that McLaren wrote a letter last week to prospective jurors urging them not to answer their jury summonses.

4.   On Thursday, he asked prosecutors how jurors should be instructed so that they understand this distinction.

5.   Prosecutors, meanwhile, note that Texas has since revamped its criminal procedures, and they say the current system for instructing jurors meets constitutional requirements.

6.   Since that time, though, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in the Penry case, setting a new standard for instructing jurors.

7.   Strand then instructed jurors on certain aspects of criminal law and their obligations.

8.   The judge chided prosecutors for failing to instruct grand jurors about circumstances under which police officers are justified in using force.

9.   When instructing jurors, Hunt said that to prove libel, Schafer had to show that Time acted negligently and deliberately tried to injure him.

10.   Parker then carefully instructed the jurors in the nuances of conspiracy, tax evasion and filing a false tax return.