Can an individual be held criminally liable for encouraging or facilitating the commission of a crime?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Bryant, F066725 (Cal. App. 2014):
An individual encouraging or facilitating the commission of a crime can be held criminally liable for the facilitated crime and any other offense that was a natural and probable consequence of the facilitated crime. (People v. Prettyman (1996) 14 Cal.4th 248, 260.) In order to find a defendant liable of a related offense, the trier of fact must establish the following:
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