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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3536
Fraudulent Use of Social Security Number or Other Identifying Information - Altered or Sold a Social Security Card
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with fraudulent use of a Social Security
number or other identifying information.
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 [altered/bought/sold]
__________ [specify a Social Security card, a counterfeit Social Security card, or an altered
Social Security card],
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 3536 (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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