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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3716
Unlawfully Selling or Offering for Sale a Recording
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with unlawfully selling or offering for sale a
recording.
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] unlawfully [advertised/sold/offered for sale] [a/an] ____________
[specify the article or device on which sounds or images were transferred], knowing that the
[sounds/images] on the ____________ [specify the article or device on which the sounds or
images were transferred] had been unlawfully transferred without the [consent/permission] of
[name of owner], who was the owner,
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 3716 (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
a6ccb5725d739a6daf2b59b5bd02ac5e424c30850a49f2683c0226888b25ceff
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