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    ● Report to the Executive Committee   9/14/22

    ● Report to the Executive Committee   5/6/22

    ● Report to the Executive Committee   3/11/22

    ● Report to the Executive Committee   11/5/21

Purpose

The Ohio Jury Instructions (OJI) Committee drafts Ohio Jury Instructions for newly enacted legislation and updates existing instructions as needed and required by intervening legal opinions or events.

Ohio Jury Instructions Recent Instructions

The instructions listed below are provisional documents by the OJI Committee, but not yet released for publication. Once they have been published, they will be removed from the site.

Instruction # Description    
CR 421.19 Self-defense, defense of residence - use of non-deadly force R.C. 2901.05 (effective 4/6/21) [Rev. 11/5/22]          PDF Word
CR 421.191 Defense of another – use of non-deadly force R.C. 2901.05 (effective 4/6/21) [Rev. 11/5/22] PDF
 
 
CR 421.21 Self-defense, defense of residence – use of deadly force R.C. 2901.05 (effective 4/6/21) [Rev. 11/5/22]       PDF Word
CR 421.211 Defense of another against danger of death or great bodily harm – use of deadly force R.C. 2901.05 (effective 3/28/19) [Rev. 11/5/22]       PDF Word

CR 425.33

Verdict [Rev. 11/5/22]

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CR 525.11 Aggravated possession of drugs, possession of drugs, marihuana, cocaine, L.S.D., heroin, or hashish R.C. 2925.11 (offenses committed on and after 9/13/16)  [Rev. 11/5/22] PDF
 
 

 


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