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                          LCRLJ 51
                     JURY INSTRUCTIONS


(a) Assembling and Distribution.  Proposed jury
    instructions shall be assembled and distributed as follows:

   (1) One copy (including cover page) to judge to be
       unnumbered, paper clipped (not stapled) and without
       citations;

   (2) One copy with supporting citations, numbered and
       stapled, to each of the following:

       Clerk, for court file
       Judge, for work copy
       Counsel for each opposing party

(b) Citations.  Washington Pattern Jury Instructions are to
    be cited.  On the copies of proposed jury instructions
    delivered to the judge, clerk and opposing counsel, pattern
    instructions shall be identified by WPI number.  If a
    pattern instruction is changed or modified in any way, the
    citation shall include the word “modified.”
	

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