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Duty to Accept Law From Court
2006- Closing Instructions
C - 85.1
While you are the sole judges of fact in this case, it is your duty to accept the law as it is given to you by the Court in these instructions and to apply the law to the facts as you shall find them to have been proved. You have no right to disregard the law and look for any theory unsupported by credible evidence upon which to build a verdict one way or the other, nor to return a verdict based upon your own notions of what the law is or ought to be.
 
State v. McClary, 2004 ND 98, 679 NW2d 455
Spieker v. Westgo, Inc., 479 NW2d 837 (ND 1992)
City of Fargo v. Komulainen, 466 NW2d 610 (ND 1991)