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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 111
Form of the Verdict - When Sentence of Life Imprisonment Is Possible
If you find [name of defendant] guilty as charged, you may [fix/set] [his/her] punishment
at life imprisonment if all 12 of you agree. In this case, the form of your verdict shall be as
follows:
“We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged and unanimously [fix/set] [his/her]
punishment at life imprisonment.”
If you find [name of defendant] guilty as charged, but all 12 of you do not agree that
[his/her] punishment should be [fixed/set] at life imprisonment, then the form of your verdict
shall be as follows:
“We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged.”
You are instructed that if you find [name of defendant] not guilty, the form of your
verdict shall be as follows:
“We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty.”
Your verdict must be in one of the three forms written above. You should write your
verdict on a separate sheet of paper. It does not need to be signed.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 111 (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
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