How have courts dealt with claims regarding errors in jury instructions where the record does not show who requested the instructions?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Bison Builders, Inc. v. ThyssenKrupp Elevator Corp., A131622, A131623 (Cal. App. 2012):
consider claims regarding errors in jury instructions where the record does not show who requested the instructions. (Faulk v. Soberanes (1961) 56 Cal.2d 466, 471 ["appellant . . . has the burden to present a record sufficiently complete to establish that the claimed errors were not invited by her, and in the absence of such a showing she may not properly complain"].)
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