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                         RULE CrRLJ 6.8
                      NOTE-TAKING BY JURORS


    In all cases, jurors shall be allowed to take written notes
regarding the evidence presented to them and keep these notes
with them during their deliberation.  The court may allow jurors
to keep these notes with them in the jury room during recesses,
in which case jurors may review their own notes but may not share
or discuss the notes with other jurors until they begin
deliberating. Such notes should be treated as confidential
between the jurors making them and their fellow jurors, and shall
be destroyed immediately after the verdict is rendered.

[Adopted effective September 1, 1987; amended effective October 1, 2002.]
	

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