MsAnais
Verified Clinical Psychologist (AU)
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Me too. I only did two years of Legal Studies at high school and a lot of watching of People's Court on YouTube. :blushing:
I don't think helping him leave the crime scene is a problem.
If they'll get him on anything, it'll probably have to be trying to destroy/manipulate evidence.
At the moment, I am looking at this huge Queensland Criminal Code PDF: https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/CURRENT/C/CriminCode.pdf
page 49:
Code:10 Accessories after the fact A person who receives or assists another who is, to the person’s knowledge, guilty of an offence, in order to enable the person to escape punishment, is said to become an accessory after the fact to the offence. 10A Interpretation of ch 2 (1) Under section 7, a person’s criminal responsibility extends to any offence that, on the evidence admissible against him or her, is either the offence proved against the person who did the act or made the omission that constitutes that offence or any statutory or other alternative to that offence. (2) Under section 8, a person’s criminal responsibility extends to any offence that, on the evidence admissible against him or her, is a probable consequence of the prosecution of a common intention to prosecute an unlawful purpose, regardless of what offence is proved against any other party to the common intention. (3) This section does not limit any other provision of this chapter
Page 191:
Code:307 Accessory after the fact to murder Any person who becomes an accessory after the fact to murder is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for life.
There's something really interesting on page 184:
Code:296 Acceleration of death A person who does any act or makes any omission which hastens the death of another person who, when the act is done or the omission is made, is labouring under some disorder or disease arising from another cause, is deemed to have killed that other person.
This is interesting too but I don't think GT would be able to use it because of clause (b) and his physical strength.
Code:267 Defence of dwelling It is lawful for a person who is in peaceable possession of a dwelling, and any person lawfully assisting him or her or acting by his or her authority, to use force to prevent or repel another person from unlawfully entering or remaining in the dwelling, if the person using the force believes on reasonable grounds— (a) the other person is attempting to enter or to remain in the dwelling with intent to commit an indictable offence in the dwelling; and (b) it is necessary to use that force.
Thanks so much for that info elwyn. :seeya: Very interesting.