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What is Criminal Accountability?

January 17, 2015 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

When you see the following language in a charing document you know the state is proceeding under a theory of accountability:

“…or one for whom he is legally responsible,”

A Defendant can be found guilty of an offense on a theory of accountability.

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