Legal impossibility
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title:
Legal impossibility
text:
Legal impossibility is a traditional common law defense to a charge of an attempted crime. Legal impossibility arises when the act, if completed, would not be a crime. A person believes she is committing a crime, but the act is, in fact, lawful. For example, a person may believe she is receiving stolen goods, but the goods are in fact not stolen. A different form of legal impossibility comes into play when an actor's goal is illegal, but commission of the crime is impossible due to a factual mis
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Defense stating an act cannot be a crime if completed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_impossibility
date created:
2006-05-08T02:12:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T20:18:55Z
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