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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 204
Evidence of Witness’s Prior Conviction
You have heard evidence that [name of witness] has been convicted of __________
[specify crime]. You may consider that previous conviction for the limited purpose of
determining [name of witness]’s truthfulness as a witness.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 204 (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
c2d58d1239976c76f31b1f2fe9cac741f4a256fe390c942112c640651c2b709c
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