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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 504
Impossibility
The defense of impossibility is only available if it is actually impossible for the crime to
have been committed by the defendant. It is not a defense if the reason that it is impossible to
commit the crime is because of another person’s actions or some other force, such as
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History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 504 (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
426ca919b0197ae1257c08db224da1a3af3446d9b5fd7c7cbde30b4e2f2389f3
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