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“There’s accomplice liability law,” Weisberg said. “Even if we didn’t have a conspiracy law, if you are engaged in an act with a certain mental state which would make you guilty of a crime and if I aid and abet you — and sometimes aiding and abetting can be really a form of really active encouragement, no more than that — I am an accomplice to the crime, and an accomplice to a crime commits the crime.”

“There isn’t any separate crime called ‘complicity’,” he continued. “It’s just a way of committing a crime.” (The Washington Post)

Under Alabama’s complicity law, also known as the “aiding and abetting” statute, an accomplice to a crime is just as guilty as the main actor. (The New York Times)