Opinion ID: 1453508
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Heading: Instructions on the Deliberative Process

Text: In People v. Brown, supra, 40 Cal.3d at page 544, footnote 17, we found that the then-standard jury instructions on the deliberative process were potentially misleading. For the future guidance of the trial courts, we stated that a proposed modification of the standard instruction would conform to our opinion. ( Id. at p. 545, fn. 19.) The court in this case instructed the jury in language substantially identical to that approved in Brown. [12] Now defendant contends that the Brown instruction is incorrect and misleading. We have already rejected such contentions. ( People v. Sully, supra, 53 Cal.3d at pp. 1243-1244; People v. Duncan (1991) 53 Cal.3d 955, 977-979 [281 Cal. Rptr. 273, 810 P.2d 131]; People v. Cox, supra, 53 Cal.3d at pp. 679-680.)