Andrews v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “(1) A person is an accomplice of another person in the commission of an offense, if with the purpose of promoting or facilitating the commission of an offense, he: (a) solicits, advises, encourages or coerces the other person to commit it; or (b) aids, agrees to aid, or attempts to aid the other person in planning or committing it; or (c) having a legal duty to prevent the commission of the offense fails to make a proper effort to do so. (2) When causing a particular result is an element of an offense, a person is an accomplice in the commission of that offense if, acting with respect to that result with the kind of culpability sufficient for the commission of the offense, he (a) solicits, advises, encourages or coerces another person to engage in the conduct causing the result; or (b) aids, agrees to aid, or attempts to aid another person in planning or engaging in the conduct causing the result; or (c) having a legal duty to prevent the conduct causing the result, fails to make proper effort to do so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roleson v. State

2. “. . . The word “accomplice” does not imply (as “accessory” once did) that either is subordinate to the other. It is simply a shorthand way of saying that both are responsible. That point is made clear by § 301 of the Code, which reads: “A person may commit an offense either by his own conduct or that of another person. ” Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-301. Thus each participant is criminally liable, ultimately, only for his own conduct, but he cannot disclaim responsibility merely because he did not personally take part in every act that went to make up the crime as a whole.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ruiz v. State