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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 115
Consideration of Mitigating Circumstances
Each of you, as individual jurors, must consider mitigating circumstances. Therefore,
even if all the other jurors find that a certain mitigating circumstance does not exist and you
believe that it does exist, then you must find that mitigating circumstance does exist and weigh it
in your further deliberations.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 115 (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
12dff19e21668e860d5c5257a079789d01ed071fbe366547adaa4caa12504870
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