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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 506
Insanity - Verdict Form
Your verdict should be written on a separate sheet of paper. It does not have to be signed
by you. The verdict should be in one of the following forms:
If you find the defendant guilty:
“We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of _____________________ [specify
crime charged].”
If you find the defendant not guilty:
“We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty.”
If you find the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity:
“We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity, and we find that
the defendant has since been restored to [his/her] reason.”
OR
“We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity, and we find that
the defendant has not been restored to [his/her] reason and is dangerous to the
community.”
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 506 (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
890df2173c87b76f52ace2a2df762281fe800d5f160e4af4d0b6fd0ddc37c41e
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