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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 5025
Posting a Message to Cause Injury
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with posting a damaging message.
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 posted a message to cause [injury/harm/damage] to [name of
person], by using ___________ [specify method of communication, including the Internet or a
computer, computer program, computer system or computer network, or other electronic medium
of communication], without [name of person]'s [consent/permission],
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 of count _____.
Definition(s) in this Instruction:
In this instruction, “posted a message” means sending, publishing, communicating, or
attempting to send, publish, or communicate truthful or untruthful information about a victim.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 5025 (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
193ed75cd5760eeb4e666bdcb57e84302e4a6834dcadc9a52afb8a2fd4a136b1
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