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Criminal Law

People v. Likine

This case involves an important caveat to the concept of liability for omissions: the idea that one cannot fairly be held accountable for failing to do something she was not capable of doing.

We will return to the concept of impossibility as a defense later in the semester, principally when we cover the law of criminal attempts.