so if I understand this: these poor kids \committed their crimes only after some others may have committed the same crime before them.
Sorry officer, but when I stabbed the man, he was already bleeding from someone who had stabbed him before me!
that won’t work in court....
Remind me of the ending to the story in which one spouse fires a shot at the other, misses, and hits and kills a guy that had was in the middle of self-defenestration from an apartment far above them?