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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2915
Receiving a Bribe - Legislator
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with asking for or receiving a bribe.
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 a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives or
Mississippi Senate; and
3. [Name of defendant] unlawfully [asked for/received/agreed to receive] a bribe, intending for
the bribe to influence [his/her] vote, opinion, decision, or action, or [his/her] actions in [his/her]
official capacity on a particular issue or question,
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 in count ___.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2915 (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
92b29c870766979f1d5d424454753dff2878d9bab99662081c01a510ac1691cd
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