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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3720

Unlawfully Selling a Recording without Proper Identification

activein force · 2012-06-30 – presentas-observed

[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with unlawfully selling a recording without

proper identification.

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

[sold/rented/distributed/circulated] [a/an] ____________ [specify the recorded article or device,

including phonograph record, tape, disc, videocassette, film, or other article or device on which

sounds or images may be recorded], which contained images, without the actual name and street

address of the manufacturer prominently [disclosed/displayed] on the __________ [specify

cover, jacket, box, or label] containing the ____________ [specify the recorded article or device,

including phonograph record, tape, disc, videocassette, film, or other article or device on which

sounds or images may be recorded], for [money/compensation];

2B. [Name of defendant] [intentionally/knowingly] and unlawfully

[sold/rented/distributed/circulated] [a/an] ____________ [specify the recorded article or device,

including phonograph record, tape, disc, videocassette, film, or other article or device on which

sounds or images may be recorded], which contained only sounds, without the actual name and

street address of the manufacturer and without the name of the performer or group prominently

[disclosed/displayed] on the __________ [specify cover, jacket, box, or label] containing the

____________ [specify the recorded article or device, including phonograph record, tape, disc,

videocassette, film, or other article or device on which sounds or images may be recorded], for

[money/compensation],

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 ___.

Definition(s) in this Instruction:

In this instruction, “manufacturer” means an individual, partnership, corporation or

association which, after having acquired the right to transfer sounds or images from the owner,

actually transferred or caused the transfer of such sounds or images to be recorded onto a

phonograph record, disc, wire, tape, videocassette, film or other article on which sounds or

images are recorded; or assembled and transferred a product containing such transferred sounds

or images.

History

Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3720 (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: 67fcfdacdaf36cf038b37b2de490763262e95448e1a7c40b74b77791471450aa

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