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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 102
Defendant’s Right Not to Testify
The defendant has the Constitutional right not to testify on [his/her] own behalf in this
case. You are not to make any [conclusions/inferences] of guilt about the defendant as a result of
the defendant exercising [his/her] right not to testify on [his/her] own behalf. You will not
consider in any way the defendant’s failure to testify during your deliberations.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 102 (current as of June 30, 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
addee23d213df8b0a3d66e0483d7de7f600c08a21c11f32e77e60d82484ef1d6
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