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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2738
Selling, Buying, or Offering to Sell or Buy a Child
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with selling, buying, offering to sell, or
offering to buy a child or unborn child.
1. On or about [date of alleged crime], in ____________ County;
2. [Name of defendant] unlawfully [sold/bought/offered to sell/offered to buy] [a/an]
[child/unborn child] by ____________________ [describe the defendant’s alleged actions],
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 _____.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2738 (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
6807eb273dd10c9458a662495e828e6c9fa6770cfa0a6547a528fce974195e50
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