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Jury InstructionsJury instructions are the set of legal rules that jurors must follow when the jury is deciding a case. France According to the French Code of Penal Procedure, all jurors must must individually swear to the following message from the judge presiding the court: "You judge and promise to examine with the most scrupulous attention the charges who will be laid against defendant; to betray neither the interests of the defendant, nor the interests of the society that accuses him, nor the interests of the victim; not to communicate with anybody until you your verdict; not so listen to hatred, malice, fear or affection; to remember that the defendant is presumed to be innocent and that doubt must benefit him; to decide yourself according to the charges and the means of defense, according to your conscience and intimate conviction, with the impartiality and firmness that befit an honest and free person, and to keep the secret of the deliberations, even after you cease to be a juror." Original version: "Vous jurez et promettez d'examiner avec l'attention la plus scrupuleuse les charges qui seront portes contre X, de ne trahir ni les intrts de l'accus, ni ceux de la socit qui l'accuse, ni ceux de la victime ; de ne communiquer avec personne jusqu'aprs votre dclaration ; de n'couter ni la haine ou la mchancet, ni la crainte ou l'affection ; de vous rappeler que l'accus est prsum innocent et que le doute doit lui profiter ; de vous dcider d'aprs les charges et les moyens de dfense, suivant votre conscience et votre intime conviction, avec l'impartialit et la fermet qui conviennent un homme probe et libre, et de conserver le secret des dlibrations, mme aprs la cessation de vos fonctions."
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