complicity

complicity (k[schwa]m-plis-[schwa]-tee), n. Association or participation in a criminal act; the act or state of being an accomplice. • Under the Model Penal Code, a person can be an accomplice as a result of either that person’s own conduct or the conduct of another (such as an innocent agent) for which that person is legally ac-countable. Model Penal Code § 2.06. See ACCOMPLICE; innocent agent under AGENT. [Cases: Criminal Law 59. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 127, 998.] — complicitous (k[schwa]m-plis-[schwa]-t[ schwa]s), adj.

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