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| Topic | Someone you're close with commits a crime. Would you give them up? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/25/18 6:35:06 AM #36: | Zeus posted... Monopoman posted...Keep in mind that if you know someone killed another person and it comes out that you knew and didn't say shit they can send your ass to jail. Not exactly. It isn't actually a crime to know a crime has been committed and make no effort to report it or aid the police in solving it. At least not in most jurisdictions, as far as I know. You CAN be charged as an "accessory after-the-fact", but that requires you to have actively aided the criminal while aware of their crime. Things like helping hide evidence, lying to police, or otherwise acting to interfere with their being caught fall under that umbrella, but merely failing to actively volunteer information to the authorities doesn't. Basically, you're never legally obligated to "snitch", no matter the crime. But if the police come and start asking you questions, and you're evasive or outright lie, that's when the problems begin. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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