Federal Way Municipal Court

		
		
                                                FWMCLR 6.15
                                            JURY INSTRUCTIONS


    (a) Jury instructions shall be provided as follows:

        (1) The parties shall exchange a full set of cited and numbered proposed instructions on the day of
trial and file a copy of the cited and numbered proposed instructions with the court.  In addition, each party
shall provide the judge with one set of unnumbered and uncited instructions in the same sequential order as the
cited and numbered proposed instructions filed with the court.  The unnumbered and uncited instructions may be
provided to the judge in Word electronic format in lieu of a hard copy.

        (2) Numbering and Arrangement of Cited and Numbered Instructions.  On the cited and numbered copy of
instructions filed with the court the citations shall be in the lower left-hand corner.  The instructions shall
be arranged in a logical order and numbered sequentially by the submitting party at the top center of each page
(Example: "Instruction No. 1" would be at the top center of the first proposed instruction, "Instruction No. 2"
would be at the top center of the second proposed instruction, and so forth).


(Effective September 1, 2013)