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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 208
Circumstantial Evidence - Two-Theory Instruction
If you can draw two or more reasonable conclusions from the [circumstantial/indirect]
evidence, and one of those reasonable conclusions points to innocence and another one to guilt,
then you must accept the one that points to innocence. However, when considering
[circumstantial/indirect] evidence, you must accept only reasonable conclusions and reject any
that are unreasonable.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 208 (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
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