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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 406
Negligence or Negligently
Negligence (or negligently) is doing something that a reasonably careful person would not
do under similar circumstances or failing to do something that a reasonably careful person would
do under similar circumstances. [If the defendant violated a state or municipal law, then the jury
may find that [he/she] was negligent.]
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 406 (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
5c3d3db67bb09931b9014b84d2eae4f7704b4ebd7aa617c184f1ef0869eb90c4
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