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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 202
Burden of Proof
I will now explain the term burden of proof. The plaintiff filed this lawsuit and bears the
burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that what [he/she/it/they] [claim/claims] is
true. The defendant does not have to prove any fact or issue in response unless I instruct you
otherwise.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 202 (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
43427c77d0b813fdca3b9be527b58578a9693afc6e2dfeb93908e0c511e77efb
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