{"id":1848,"date":"2026-02-13T19:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2026-02-13T19:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:01:48","slug":"defendant-not-testifying-at-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?p=1848","title":{"rendered":"Defendant Not Testifying at Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>February 13, 2026:<\/strong> The Committee has explained in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=660\">reporter&#8217;s note for the &#8220;Defendant Not Testifying at Trial&#8221; instruction<\/a> that it has declined a specific request to revise that instruction at this time, pending further guidance from the Supreme Court and\/or legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2026: The Committee has explained in the reporter&#8217;s note for the &#8220;Defendant Not Testifying at Trial&#8221; instruction that it has declined a specific request to revise that instruction at this time, pending further guidance from the Supreme Court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?p=1848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}