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California's Judicial Council voted last week to simplify the state's instructions to jurors. Here are two examples of the long-overdue changes.
JARGON: "Innocent misrecollection is not uncommon."
ENGLISH: "People sometimes honestly forget things or make mistakes about what they remember."
JARGON: "A witness who is willfully false in one material aspect of his or her testimony is to be distrusted in others."
ENGLISH: "If you decide that a witness deliberately lied about something important, you should consider not believing anything that witness says."
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