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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 207
Use of Circumstantial Evidence
If the State has used circumstantial evidence to prove its case against the defendant, then
the evidence must be so strong as to convince you that the defendant is guilty beyond a
reasonable doubt and to the exclusion of any reasonable explanation of the defendant’s
innocence.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 207 (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
e8e93b40a7e83bfe524427b07a59b282d7d85d3915ca2cead5e122bebc4a8225
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