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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3717
Unlawfully Leasing Equipment for Copying Sounds or Images
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with unlawfully offering or leasing
equipment for copying sounds or images.
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 [offered/leased/made available] [equipment/machinery] for
[money/fee/rent/compensation], knowing that the [equipment/machinery] would be used by
[name of person] to [reproduce/copy] a ____________ [specify phonograph record, disc, wire,
tape, videocassette, film or other device on which sounds or images have been 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 3717 (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
1086041e1f54ab7609681424ab5fd8325c22554cdda5c5a3d8fae25752cb11e9
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