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                         RULE 51(c)
                      JURY INSTRUCTIONS


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

          (1)  Original to trial Judge to be unnumbered
               without citations.

          (2)  One copy numbered and with supporting
               citations 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 copy of Proposed Jury Instructions
delivered to the trial court, the Clerk, and opposing
counsel, those Washington Pattern Jury Instructions proposed
shall be so identified by WPI number.  If the WPI is changed
or modified in any way (except for the selection of
alternate WPI wording), the citation shall include the word "modified".


[Adopted effective June 30, 1993.]
	

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