How To Use NCJIC

    II (a)     How NCJIC National Is Organized
    II (b)     Using The Table Of Contents From The Home Page
    II (c)     Accessing Federal Model Instructions And Manuals

    NCJIC consists of over 7,000 individual documents organized under logical descriptive categories. The categories consist of hierarchical headings starting with the broadest category and working down to the narrowest. Each document typically deals with a discrete issue which is described in the title.

    THE NATIONAL CRIMINAL JURY INSTRUCTION COMPENDIUM
Instructions And Issues Omitted By The Pattern Instructions
Copyright & Publication Information

    II(b)    Using The Table Of Contents From The Home Page    

    From the Home Page click once on “Table of Contents” to display the NCJIC Volumes.

    Click once on a Volume to display the chapters within the Volume. Continue progressing through the headings until you reach a list of document titles that is displayed in lighter blue. Click the document title to open it.

     To return to the Table Of Contents screen you last viewed click on back.  

    II(c)    Accessing Federal Model Instructions And Manuals

    1.    Federal Models

    NCJIC includes full text model instructions with the accompanying notes and commentary for the following:

        1st Circuit

        5th Circuit

        6th Circuit

        7th Circuit

        8th Circuit

        9th Circuit

        11th Circuit   

        Federal Judicial Center

    2.    Manuals

    NCJIC also includes the following Federal Manuals:

• Manual On Recurring Problems In Criminal Trials
  

• Capital Punishment Handbook
  

• A Manual On Jury Trial Procedures
  

• Benchbook For U.S. District Court Judges

    These materials may be accessed through their Table Of Contents from the Home Page.