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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 205
Evidence of Defendant’s Character
You have heard evidence about [name of defendant]’s prior bad acts of ____________
[specify prior bad acts]. You are not to consider the prior bad acts as evidence that [name of
defendant] committed the crime for which [he/she] is now charged. You may consider the prior
bad acts for the limited purpose of establishing motive, opportunity, identity, intent, plan,
preparation, knowledge, absence of mistake, or accident.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 205 (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
1a3b43beac68d6dd5257bc353b91e6f1e9494e70583bbb4daa8c5d975f269500
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