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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 114
Weighing Aggravating Circumstances Compared to Mitigating Circumstances
I must emphasize to you that the procedure that you must follow is not simply a counting
process of a certain number of aggravating circumstances [versus/compared to] the number of
mitigating circumstances. Instead, you must apply your reasoning and judgment in light of the
total circumstances of the case, as to whether this [situation/case] calls for life imprisonment or
whether it requires the imposition of the death penalty.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 114 (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
d654c7794bb00b5d660aebfdf72a8730c19cc866d2a342f903204f6c7011c966
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