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CatMuto wrote:
Ah, such a thing doesn't exist in the AA Universe. There's only murder (whether accidental or planned) and accessory to murder (which gets prosecuted as murder, 2-4, you stupid case!!) and maybe some larcency.
Assault and battery and perjury are mentioned, although they never actually seem to be prosecuted, except maybe against
I think you're confusing accomplice and accessory after the fact. An accomplice to murder is prosecuted for murder. An accessory after the fact gets prosecuted for something like accessory, obstructing justice, harboring a fugitive, lying to investigators, etc.
Principal (main culprit or accomplice) and accessory defined Although the games refer to people like
as "accomplices" while acquitting them, when the correct verdict for a full-blown accomplice (in the U.S. at least) would be "guilty," they get it right in effect. It seems pretty realistic that someone like
would be convicted of murder. Accessory would be more like
20 people executed for murder in the U.S. since 1977 who did not directly kill anyone, 10 as felony murder rule co-culprits and 10 for soliciting assassinations.The games, while still horribly unrealistic, have been getting slightly more realistic with the AAI team. Diplomatic immunity, extraterritoriality, tolling the statute of limitations in GK2, etc. If self-defense and insanity defenses exist, necessity defenses might as well. Most jurisdictions don't allow necessity (other than justified self-defesne or justified defense of others) as a defense in a murder case, so it might simply not come up.