Accomplice Liability Elements Flashcards
Elements: Accomplice Liability
If you aid, abet, encourage, or facilitate the crime with the intent the crime be committed, you can be found guilty of that crime
1. Aiding, abetting, encouraging, or facilitating ( must be active involvement, words or mere presence not enough)
2. Must have intent that they help with crime AND intent that the charged crime is completed
Legal assistance: intent can be inferred when an accomplice renders legal assistance if the accomplice has knowledge and a stake in the outcome. Must have knowledge of the illegal purpose and a stake in the outcome
Who are the Parties to the crime and what are their roles?
Principal- person actually engaging in the crime
Accomplice- someone who, with the intent that the crime be committed, aids, counsels, or encourages the principal
Accomplice after the fact- someone who shields, shelters or assits another knowing that they person has committed a felony to help t hem escape arrest, trial, or conviction
Accomplice- guilty of underlying offense
Accomplice after the fact- guilyt of lesser offense of “accessory after the fact”
Scope of liability is for the intended crime and all other foreseeable crimes committed by the principals
