Accessory to Murder (?)
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Law & Order: UK
HijodelCid — 12 years ago(August 29, 2013 04:15 PM)
In the episode of 28 August 13 the girl Jess, who was the lover of the murderer, is arrested as an accessory after the fact. How does that work? She had no part in the accidental manslaughter of the man's wife, and she did confess the real facts of the case.
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jbwphoto1 — 12 years ago(September 17, 2013 03:35 PM)
If a murderer comes to you and tells you what he/she did, you now know of the crime. If you know the police are looking for the murderer and you don't tell the police who it is or where you think the murderer may be, you're withholding information from the police.
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jbwphoto1 — 12 years ago(September 19, 2013 11:00 AM)
In the US, the age at which one can be tried as an adult varies by state and sometimes by crime and what the possible punishment may be.
A high schooler accused of being an accessory to murder will be tried as an adult even if they are of low mental functioning, particularly in the southern parts of the US. -
Synetech — 12 years ago(September 30, 2013 12:01 PM)
Indeed. She may not have helped to commit the crime, but by not reporting it, she was obstructing justice and abetting his evasion of arrest.
Also, there have been a couple of episodes of
L&O: UK
in which a young child was a murderer and was tried as an adult, so I would think that a high-schooler would be treated the same.
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