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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2734
Sexual Battery - Victim Less Than 14 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 24 or more months older than [name of victim]; and
B. [Name of victim] was less than 14 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 2734 (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
7f5178bb939bea4c3669f8e3e4131470b5b0d42116bfb8aa493a61615a899f16
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