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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2733
Sexual Battery - Victim at Least 14 Years Old but Less Than 16 Years Old
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ____ with sexual battery.
If you find beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence in this case that:
1. On or about [date of alleged crime], in ____________ County;
2. [Name of defendant] was ____ years old or older; and
3. [Name of defendant] unlawfully engaged in sexual penetration with [name of victim]; and
4. When [name of defendant] unlawfully engaged in sexual penetration with [name of victim]:
A. [Name of defendant] was 36 or more months older than [name of victim]; and
B. [Name of victim] was at least 14 years old but less than 16 years old,
then you shall find [name of defendant] guilty as charged.
If the State did not prove any one of the above listed elements beyond a reasonable doubt,
then you shall find [name of defendant] not guilty of count _____.
Definition(s) in this Instruction:
In this instruction, “sexual penetration” means any touching or penetrating a person’s
anal, genital, or oral openings by the defendant or by the defendant inserting an object into a
person’s anal, genital, or oral openings.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2733 (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
04c4ae0a98f348b7748e5fd35ab95c21f258a589a511c105c82f259d566d1a6d
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