The Crime of Assisting a Criminal
An area of law that is frequently confused is the difference between the legal theory of accomplice liability and the crime of assisting a criminal. While similar, it is important to understand that accomplice liability is a legal mechanism to hold all participants of a crime accountable. Assisting a criminal, on the other hand, is its own crime that holds accountable those that help participants of a crime evade capture. Accomplice Liability The rationale behind…