The first would be to limit accomplice liability so fewer people can be charged using those laws. Last year, a bill that would have done that failed to gain traction in the Illinois legislature, but ...

In a paper discussing the due process limits on accomplice liability, Heyman also called U.S. accomplice laws a "disgrace," stating that "by definition, complicity law attaches guilt to the ...

In some cases, any encouragement of the crime is enough to trigger accomplice liability, which dictates that the charged accomplice will receive the same punishment as the actual perpetrator of ...

A recent decision by U.S. District Judge Janet Arterton for the District of Connecticut has rejected the Department of Justice's "accomplice" theory of liability under the Foreign Corrupt Practices ...

Indiana law allowed prosecutors to use accomplice liability — meaning a group participating in connection with a crime like murder can be considered equally guilty, no matter who fired the ...

Gecoya was charged under the accomplice liability provision in June, Granger said. Killed were Brian Kenealy, 20, of York, Maine; Chase Fossett, 21, of Gardiner, Maine; Luke Simpson, ...

Accomplice liability charges are rare but not unprecedented in Maine. In the early 1990s, a motorist who was too drunk to drive was convicted under those provisions after giving his keys to a ...