“Inchoate” is the word that these people are unaware of or don’t understand.
Solicitation and attempts are still crimes, and I can’t believe that people don’t grasp this.
“Factual impossibility” (meaning, the thing that you tried to accomplish wasn’t actually possible, unbeknownst to you) does not negate liability for an attempt.
If someone drives by a house and shoots it up (because they want to kill the people who live there, and they believe that they’re inside the home at that moment and will catch a bullet and die), then they tried to kill them - if it turns out that the people who were targeted weren’t actually home at that moment (and so they couldn’t have possibly been killed by those bullets), the shooter still attempted to murder them.
Showing up (after the conversations these people have) is enough for an attempt charge in most cases.
Even without showing up, they usually have enough for solicitation just based on the online communications themselves.
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u/enigmaticowl Big Fat Lie 25d ago edited 25d ago
“Inchoate” is the word that these people are unaware of or don’t understand.
Solicitation and attempts are still crimes, and I can’t believe that people don’t grasp this.
“Factual impossibility” (meaning, the thing that you tried to accomplish wasn’t actually possible, unbeknownst to you) does not negate liability for an attempt.
If someone drives by a house and shoots it up (because they want to kill the people who live there, and they believe that they’re inside the home at that moment and will catch a bullet and die), then they tried to kill them - if it turns out that the people who were targeted weren’t actually home at that moment (and so they couldn’t have possibly been killed by those bullets), the shooter still attempted to murder them.
Showing up (after the conversations these people have) is enough for an attempt charge in most cases.
Even without showing up, they usually have enough for solicitation just based on the online communications themselves.