Rule 6-801 Use of NJI2d.

Judges use a standard set of jury instructions called the Nebraska Jury Instructions, Second Edition, often shortened to NJI 2d. These are pre-written explanations of the law that judges can read to juries during a trial.

A judge can use one of these standard instructions when it correctly explains the law and it fits the facts and claims in the case. This means the judge isn't required to write instructions from scratch every time. Instead, if a standard instruction matches the situation, the judge can simply use it.

For people involved in a lawsuit, this means the instructions the jury hears are often based on a tested, reliable set of legal explanations. This helps keep instructions consistent from one case to another, as long as the standard version actually applies to what happened in the case and matches the evidence presented at trial.