{"id":509,"date":"2012-10-18T18:21:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T22:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=509"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:29:53","slug":"84-criminal-facilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"84. Criminal Facilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-510\" title=\"Conspiracy22\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy22.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy22-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e68a7c8681b3049656201' value='69e68a7c8681b3049656201'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e68a7c8681b3049656201' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e68a7c8681b3049656201' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e68a7c8681b3049656201' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 10: We&#8217;ll All Go Down Together<br \/>Conspiracy pg 22: Advanced Accomplice Liability<\/p>\n<p>Now back to Chase for a moment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vignette of Chase<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say he didn&#8217;t have the necessary intent to carry out the theft. Maybe he didn&#8217;t care one way or the other. But he still thought it was likely that Dr. S. was planning a crime. Should Chase be let off the hook, just because he didn&#8217;t have the necessary mens rea to be an accomplice?<\/p>\n<p>Some courts are going to say he intended to aid in the commission, and simply apply that intent to give him accomplice liability.<\/p>\n<p>A straightforward approach used by some other states, however, is to make such\u00a0<strong>indifferent assistance<\/strong> a crime itself.<\/p>\n<p>So places like New York define a crime of &#8220;criminal\u00a0<strong>facilitation<\/strong>,&#8221; a misdemeanor, when you believe you&#8217;re helping someone commit a felony, and actually do help out.<\/p>\n<p>Again, however, being an accomplice is not a separate crime. Instead, it&#8217;s what makes you liable for the crime you helped to commit.<\/p>\n<p>[SUGGESTED EDIT: Change &#8220;helped to commit&#8221; to &#8220;helped commit&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e68a7c8681b3049656201' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}