Accomplice
At law, an accomplice is a person
who actively participates in the
commission of a crime, even though
they take no part in the actual
criminal offence. For example, in
a bank robbery, the person who points
the gun at the teller and asks for
the money is guilty of armed robbery.
However, anyone else directly involved
in the commission of the crime,
such as the lookout or the getaway
car driver, is an accomplice, even
though in the absence of an underlying
offence keeping a lookout or driving
a car would not be an offence.
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