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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3524
Fraud Relating to a State or Federally Funded Assistance Program - Filing a Claim for Services Not Performed
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with fraud relating to a state or federally
funded assistance program.
If you find beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence in this case that:
1. On or about [date of alleged crime], in __________ County;
2A. [Name of defendant] [intentionally/knowingly] and unlawfully filed a claim for services for
[name of person], who received benefits under __________ [specify the state or federally funded
assistance program];
OR
2B. [Name of defendant] [intentionally/knowingly] and unlawfully attempted to file a claim for
services for [name of person], who received benefits under __________ [specify the state or
federally funded assistance program];
OR
2C. [Name of defendant] [intentionally/knowingly] and unlawfully
[aided/abetted/assisted/helped] [name of person] to file a claim for services for [name of person],
who received benefits under __________ [specify the state or federally funded assistance
program]; and
3. Those services were not performed,
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 3524 (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
3ceb95986d5cf705a09203001d2948491662116aa3d638039cea4e1e5b05a383
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