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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 343
Heinous, Atrocious, or Cruel
Heinous means extremely wicked or shockingly evil. Atrocious means outrageously
wicked and vile. Cruel means designed to inflict a high degree of pain with indifference to, or
even enjoyment of, the suffering of others.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 343 (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
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