A party requesting that the court instruct the jury under Fed. R. Crim. P. 30(a):
(a) must file the request;
(b) must use the Seventh Circuit Pattern Jury Instructions whenever possible;
(c) must request the Seventh Circuit Pattern Jury Instructions by number only; and
(d) is encouraged, when requesting non-pattern instructions, to submit them to chambers
in an electronic format compatible with the court’s word-processing program.
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Criminal Rule 46-1