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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 412
Perjury
Perjury is when a person intentionally makes a false statement under oath about a
[material/important] matter knowing that the statement is false.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 412 (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
386ec7a7332831c21ed41c2d98017ea9b3d40dcf2c6b2ce6543d3c27a3aeef26
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