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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3053
Bribing a Witness
[Name of defendant] is charged in count _____ with bribing a witness.
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] [intentionally/knowingly] and unlawfully [offered/gave/agreed to give]
____________ [specify the benefit] to [name of witness], who was a witness or a person who
may have been called to be a witness in an official proceeding, intending to
____________________ [specify (1) influence [name of witness]’s testimony; (2) encourage
[name of witness] to avoid the summons to testify; or (3) encourage [name of witness] not to
attend a proceeding that [he/she] had been summoned to attend],
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 3053 (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
12a05904ac20ecc351c10d641e6b1657ad44384866a54a22f0c5cf3dc5fb1066
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