WYOMING COURT RULES

74 the law of the case. Storms v. State, 590 P.2d 1321, 1979 Wyo. LEXIS 368 (Wyo. 1979). Failure to instruct on prosecution’s bur- den of proof not reversible error per se. — The inclusion in the instructions of a specific statement of the prosecution’s burden of proof is preferable, but failure to include it is not reversible error per se. Scheikofsky v. State, 636 P.2d 1107, 1981 Wyo. LEXIS 395 (Wyo. 1981). Oral modification or explanation of jury instructions. — Jury was properly instructed as to the procedure for considering the charged offense and lesser-included offenses because: (1) a colloquy that occurred during the state’s rebuttal closing argument was not an instruc- tion to the jury and did not constitute an oral modification or explanation that violated Wyo. R. Crim. P. 30; (2) all the district court said was that the jury should follow the instructions and the verdict form; and (3) the verdict form was the type of step verdict that had been approved in a prior case. Janpol v. State, 2008 WY 21, 178 P.3d 396, 2008 Wyo. LEXIS 22 (Wyo. 2008). No reversible error in failure to reread instructions. — Where a trial court gave part of the jury instructions at the beginning of defendant’s criminal trial and gave the remain- ing instructions after the trial but prior to the jury’s deliberations, such complied with this rule, and it was not plain error for the trial court to fail to reread the earlier give instruc- tions at the close of trial. Urbigkit v. State, 2003 WY 57, 67 P.3d 1207, 2003 Wyo. LEXIS 70 (Wyo. 2003).