These instructions were prepared initially by a Federal Judicial Center committee in 1982 and revised in 1987 by the former Subcommittee on Pattern Jury Instructions of the former Judicial Conference Committee on the Operation of the Jury System. They have not been updated nor revised. staff include suggestions for drafters of jury instructions.

Superseded by Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions: Report of the Subcommittee on Pattern Jury Instructions, Committee on the Operation of the Jury System, Judicial Conference of the United States, Second Edition (1987).