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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 2000
Malicious Prosecution - Definition
Malicious prosecution is when a [person/business/corporation] intentionally brings a civil
or criminal case against [a/another] person without a reasonable basis for the case. The
[person/business/corporation] [who/which] brings the case must have either acted with hatred or
malice against the accused person or brought the case for a purpose other than bringing [him/her]
to justice.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 2000 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
d258a07a0d25fd312c0e3ebd1d48784998807f050f3c42534c96ee0602eb991b
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