Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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in understanding the case and in reaching a correct verdict.” State v. Williams, 280 N.C. 132, 136, 184 S.E.2d 875, 877 (1971). It is recognized by this Court that “the preferred method of jury instruction is the use of the approved guidelines of the North Carolina Pattern Jury Instructions.” In re Will of Leonard, 71 N.C. App. 714, 717, 323 S.E.2d 377, 379 (1984). “In a criminal trial the judge has the duty to instruct the jury on the law arising from all the evidence presented.” State v. Moore, 75 N.C. App. 543, 546, 331 S.E.2d 251, 253, disc. review denied, 315 N.C. 188, 337 S.E.2d 862 (1985). This places a duty upon the presiding judge to instruct the jury as to the burden of proof upon each issue arising upon the pleadings. See State v. Redman, 217 N.C. 483, 8 S.E.2d 623 (1940) . “The rule as to the burden of proof is
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that the burden of proof is on the claimant
B. holding that it was improper for the trial court to instruct the jury that it could not consider the states failure to videotape the defendant
C. holding that the failure to properly instruct the jury on the burden of proof required a new trial
D. holding that the failure to instruct on a definition or to amplify an element is not a failure to instruct on an essential element
E. holding that the district courts failure to instruct the jury as to the proper standard of proof constituted plain error
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.