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2. What is the difference between solicitation and conspiracy? (note the different elements of each crime) What is an overt act? Give an example.
3. Do you agree with the accomplice liability theory - making everyone involved in the crime responsible for all criminal acts committed during the intended crime? Do you think it is fair that they all can receive the same punishment?
Solicitation refers to a criminal offence that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the commissioned person commit the crime. On the other hand, conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future. This means two or more people have to agree that they want to commit a crime, but then one party has to actually do something to make the crime happen in order for charges to be brought.
In criminal law, an overt act is the one that can be clearly proved by evidence and from which criminal intent can be inferred, as opposed to a mere intention in the mind to commit a crime. For instance, the purchase of a ski mask, which can conceal identity, may be an overt act if it is purchased in the planning of a bank robbery.
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