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After a View
2008- Evidence
C - 80.4
You have been permitted to view the _____ involved in this case solely to help you understand the evidence received during the trial and to assist you in weighing the evidence and determining the credibility of witnesses. A view of the ____ does not allow you to consider matters outside the evidence received in Court.

While you need not shut your eyes to what you see when a view is allowed by the Court, your verdict must be within the limits of the evidence received. Your verdict cannot rest alone upon your view of the __________.
 
NDCC 28-14-15
53 AmJur, Trial, §451
Note: See also C - 80.39 for an instruction to give before the view