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While aiding means providing support or assistance to someone, abetting means encouraging someone else to commit a crime. Accessory is someone who in fact assists "commission of a crime committed primarily by someone else". [1] However, some jurisdictions have merged being an accessory before the fact with aiding and abetting. [2]
James Cameron was tried in 1931 as an accessory to murder before the fact, convicted and sentenced to state prison for several years. After being released on parole, he moved to Detroit, where he worked and went to college. In the 1940s he returned to Indiana, working as a civil rights activist and heading a state agency for equal rights.
The concept of complicity is, of course, common across different legal traditions. The specific terms accessory-before-the-fact and accessory-after-the-fact were used in England and the United States but are now more common in historical than in current usage. The spelling accessary is occasionally used, but only in this legal sense.
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Before Zamora's trial began, the case was the subject of a 1997 made-for-television movie called Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder. Zamora was played by Holly Marie Combs. Two books were written about the case. [4] * A. W. Gray (1997). The Cadet Murder Case: A True Story of Teen Love and Deadly Revenge (Onyx True Crime). NAL.
An accessory is a person who helps commit the crime without presence. Accessories are generally punished less severely than the principal. The two types of accessories are: An accessory before the fact is a person who encourages or helps another commit a crime. Statutes group principals with these accessories and punish them together.
An accessory before the fact was a person who aided, encouraged, or assisted the principals in the planning and preparation of the crime but was absent when the crime was committed. [11] An accessory after the fact was a person who knowingly provided assistance to the principals in avoiding arrest and prosecution.
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