Judicial Notice

Question 1

Judicial Notice

Answer 1

the recognition of a fact as true without formal presentation of evidence.

Question 2

What kinds of facts are judicially noted?

Answer 2

indisputable facts that are either matters of common knowledge in the community or capable of verification by resort to easily accessible sources of unquestionable accuracy.

Question 3

If a court does not take judicial notice of a fact of its own accord . . .

Answer 3

a party must formally request that notice be taken of the particular act.

Question 4

May a court take judicial notice of a fact for the first time on appeal?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

In a criminal case, the jury is instructed that it ________ accept as conclusive any judicially noticed fact.

Answer 5

may

Question 6

Courts must take judicial notice of what?

Answer 6

federal and state law and the official regulations of the forum state and federal government.