Aiding and Abetting in the United States
Aiding and Abetting
Aiding and Abetting, in law, knowing involvement or complicity in a criminal act by persons other than the principal perpetrator. (1)
Aiding and abetting, in most Estates, is not a separate and distinct crime or offense from the underlying substantive crime. Rather, it is another theory for holding one liable for the underlying crime.
Attempted aiding and abetting is distinct from aiding and abetting an attempted crime.
Aiding And Abetting Definition
In criminal law. The offense committed by those persons, who, although not the direct perpetrators of a crime, are yet present at its commission, doing some act to render aid to the actual perpetrator thereof. A principal in the second degree is he who is present aiding and abetting the fact to be done.
Practical Information
Words, acts, or presence by one person to assist another person, the principal, to do the physical acts in the commission of a crime.
(Revised by Ann De Vries)
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