Can an aider and abettor be held liable for a perpetrator's crime?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Brigham, 216 Cal.App.3d 1039, 265 Cal.Rptr. 486 (Cal. App. 1989):
The derivative criminal liability of an aider and abettor for a perpetrator's crime may exist even though that crime was unintended by the aider and abettor. The principal committing the crime and his aider and abettor need not possess the same intent in order to be criminally responsible for the committed crime. (People v. Luparello, supra, 187 Cal.App.3d at p. 439, 231 Cal.Rptr. 832.)
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