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KRS 506.080

Criminal facilitation

Applied in 52 court decisions — leading case Caudill v. Commonwealth (2003)

Most recently applied in B.L. v. Schuhmann (May 2019)

Effective: January 1, 1975 History: Created 1974 Ky

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(1) A person is guilty of criminal facilitation when, acting with knowledge that another person is committing or intends to commit a crime, he engages in conduct which knowingly provides such person with means or opportunity for the commission of the crime and which in fact aids such person to commit the crime.

(2) Criminal facilitation is a:

(a) Class D felony when the crime facilitated is a Class A or Class B felony or capital offense;

(b) Class A misdemeanor when the crime facilitated is a Class C or Class D felony;

(c) Class B misdemeanor when the crime facilitated is a misdemeanor.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.