In what circumstances would the jury have been instructed to consider the relevant facts of the evidence presented in the trial?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Patterson, C075287 (Cal. App. 2015):
Finally, the proposed instruction in effect would have informed the jury of the legal basis on which the trial court ruled the evidence admissible, rather than limit the purpose of such evidence. Decisions of evidentiary admissibility are questions of law, and the trial court is under no obligation to instruct the jury as to how questions of law were decided. (See Evid. Code, 402 subd. (b); People v. Ramirez (1880) 56 Cal. 533, 536-537.)
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