Is a trial judge wrongfully refusing to give the following instructions?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Wagner, In re, 119 Cal.App.3d 90, 173 Cal.Rptr. 766 (Cal. App. 1981):
(f) Petitioners contend that the trial judge erroneously refused to give certain other instructions proposed by petitioners. We have examined each of these proposed instructions carefully. It is not necessary to set them forth at length. We find them to be either repetitive or argumentative or in some cases both. The refusal to give such instructions is not error. (People v. Taylor (1977) 67 Cal.App.3d 403, 136 Cal.Rptr. 640.)
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