Jury Instructions.

Unless otherwise ordered, jury instructions must be submitted consistent with the following: 22 (a) Prior to any conference with the court or meeting with counsel about jury instructions, the court encourages the parties to review the circuit’s standard criminal jury instructions and other uniform jury instructions. A district judge also may have designated a set of standard jury instructions that can be found on the court’s website under “Judges’ Requirements.” If so, the parties should reference and consider these instructions as well. The parties must exchange proposed instructions, meet and confer about instructions, and submit agreed-upon and, if any, additional proposed jury instructions by the deadlines determined by the district judge. See CrimLR2.3 (trial conference before the district judge).

(b) By the deadlines set out by the district judge presiding at trial, the parties shall: (1) (2) (3) serve their proposed instructions upon each other and meet and confer about the applicable jury instructions; submit one complete set of all agreed upon instructions to the court; if, in addition to the one set of agreed upon instructions, any party has proposed instructions, then they shall submit a separate set of proposed instructions on which agreement could not be reached; and (4) file written objections to an opposing party’s proposed jury instructions. (c) Each instruction submitted to the court must: begin on a separate page, be numbered consecutively, and cite to a model or uniform jury instruction number, caselaw, statute, or rule. 23 (d) Any modifications of the Ninth Circuit Model Jury Instructions or any other form instructions must specifically identify the modification made and the authority supporting the modification. (e) In addition to filing the instructions, the parties shall concurrently submit an electronic copy of their agreed upon and separately proposed instructions by e-mail to the court’s Orders inbox, available on the court’s website, in Microsoft Word format unless otherwise directed by the court.

(f) The district judge shall schedule a hearing to settle any disputed jury instructions.