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  2. Accessory (legal term) - Wikipedia

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    The accomplice to a felony or misdemeanor is the person who, by aiding or abetting, facilitates its preparation or commission. Any person who, by means of a gift, promise, threat, order or an abuse of authority or powers, provokes the commission of an offence or gives instructions to commit it, is also an accomplice.

  3. Complicity - Wikipedia

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    First, the accomplice must act with at least the same mental state required for the commission of the crime. For example, if the crime is common law murder, the state must prove that the accomplice acted with malice. Second, the accomplice must act for the purpose of helping or encouraging the principal to commit the crime. [citation needed]

  4. Aiding and abetting - Wikipedia

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    Aiding and abetting is a legal doctrine related to the guilt of someone who aids or abets (encourages, incites) another person in the commission of a crime (or in another's suicide).

  5. Backun v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Backun v. United States, 112 F.2d 635 (4th Cir. 1940), [1] is a criminal case that held that the mental element for complicity in a crime is that the accessory had knowledge that aiding or abetting would facilitate the criminal act of the principal, and did not require the accomplice have the same purpose as the principal. [2]

  6. Talk:Complicity - Wikipedia

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    This suggests that conspiracy is the only criminal form of complicity, which is not consistent with the rest of the article or the referenced articles, which treat being an accomplice as likely criminal. (The article also ought to be clearer about whether being an accomplice and being complicit are considered as synonymous.)

  7. Felony murder rule - Wikipedia

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    The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder: when someone is killed (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), the offender, and also the offender's accomplices or co-conspirators, may be found guilty of murder.

  8. Judge temporarily blocks Georgia law that limits people or ...

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    A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked part of a Georgia law that restricts organizations from helping people pay bail so they can be released while their criminal cases are pending. U.S ...

  9. Defense for Children International – Palestine et al v. Biden ...

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    Defense for Children International – Palestine et al v. Biden et al is a lawsuit by Defence for Children International – Palestine et al in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken for the U.S. officials; alleged "failure to prevent and complicity in the ...