17.23 - VI. Criminal Facilitation—Agency Defense Inapplicable

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VI. Criminal Facilitation—Agency Defense Inapplicable

The agency defense is relevant only to a charge of selling drugs. It is inapplicable to the crime of criminal facilitation—knowingly aiding the commission of a crime without necessarily possessing the mental culpability required for the commission of the crime itself and thus not within CPL § 60.22’s definition of an accomplice. Innocence of the object crime is not a defense to facilitation of it.2784 “It would be incongruous to allow a facilitator...

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