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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2703
Deliberate Design - Murder Mental State
Deliberate design is when a person decides to unlawfully kill another person, and there is
no legally justifiable or excusable reason for doing so. The decision to kill a person can be
formed very quickly and may occur only moments before the actual act of killing. However,
deliberate design cannot be formed at the exact moment of the act of killing.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2703 (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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