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It was one of Mr Hemphill's uncles who was the unwitting accomplice in a crime that had gone undetected for more than 60 years. (Irish News)

Criminal responsibility is "not a standalone crime," according to Terry Maroney, law professor at Vanderbilt University and co-director of the George Barrett Social Justice Program. It many cases it is used, instead, as an explanation for an arrest of a person who may be an accomplice in a crime — for example, the person who drives the getaway car during a home invasion. The driver didn't commit the actual crime, but he facilitated it. (Tennessean)

“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)