Section 14.16 Renunciation, Abandonment, or Withdrawal

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i. (§14.16) Renunciation, Abandonment, or Withdrawal

Section 562.041.2, RSMo 2000, creates the affirmative defense of abandonment. A defendant may assert that the defendant withdrew, abandoned, or renounced the enterprise before the crime was committed. See State v. Betts, 646 S.W.2d 94 (Mo. banc 1983). In State v. Minor, 556 S.W.2d 35 (Mo. banc 1977), the Court held that, when one of two robbers ran from the scene before the second robber killed someone, this was not a withdrawal. See also State v. O’Neal...