• There are a few situations in which accomplice liability is a legal impossibility.

• One who abandons his or her intent to participate in the crime may not be considered an accomplice. To succeed, though, the individual must notify the principal and neutralize the effects of any assistance offered to that point.

• Accomplice liability is not possible when one of the parties to a crime is supposed to be protected by the applicable statute. The crime of statutory rape serves as an example.

Questions:-

1. Provide an example of abandonment for purposes of accomplice liability.
2. In what ways could one be immune from conviction in the complicity context?