Name: The legal definition of an "attempted crime"
Uploaded: 2017-11-29T21:18:34.000Z
Duration: 1 min 17 s
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As a criminal defense attorney, people ask me all the time

The imperative

if I attempt to commit a crime, but don't actually complete it,

Or, as they sometimes say, even if you fail,

So, for example, if you attempted to kill somebody,

Or let's say that you intended to rob a bank,

and you went in with guns, and a demand note.

But it turned out that there were too many security guards,

and at the last moment you turned around and decided

not to go through with it, but you still got arrested,

you could be charged with attempted bank robbery.

First of all, that you intended to commit the completed crime.

And secondly, that you took a direct step

Which, in the example of our bank robbery,

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The legal definition of an "attempted crime"

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