CRM/LAW C144 Chapter Notes - Chapter COMMONWEALTH V ROEBUCK: Logical Possibility, Bench Trial, Mens Rea
20 Jun 2017
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Underlying facts, the actual crime that took place. The victim was lured to an apartment complex, where he was ambushed, shot, and mortally wounded: appellant participated, with others, in orchestrating the events, but he did not shoot the victim. As he did not physically perpetrate the homicide, the commonwealth relied upon accomplice theory, the matter proceeded to a bench trial, and a verdict of guilt ensued. Appellant argued that there is no rational legal theory to support accomplice liability for third-degree murder: he rested his position on the following syllogism: And acts with recklessness (i. e. , the kind of culpability sufficient for the commission of a reckless-result offense) The mpc commentary explains that the term commission of the offense, as used in. One who solicits an end, or aids or agrees to aid in its achievement, is an accomplice in whatever means may be employed, insofar as they constitute or commit an offense fairly envisaged in the purposes of the association.
