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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 210
Flight by the Defendant - Evidence of Guilt
The defendant’s flight is a circumstance from which you can infer the defendant’s guilty
knowledge or fear. If you find beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence in this case that the
defendant fled from the ________________ [specify the location from where the defendant
allegedly fled], then the defendant’s flight should be considered in connection with all the other
evidence in this case. You should determine from all of the facts whether the defendant’s flight
was from a conscious sense of guilt or whether is was caused by other things. You should give it
such weight as you think it should have in determining [name of defendant]’s guilt or innocence.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 210 (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
06e6aade7b5a116e5dae9763fbc1f9aab09ff4c2a861e040680be2c0ccd4a797
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