[Enchante]

“accessory before the fact”

I’m no lawyer but someone who has such fairly specific knowledge of the time and place of impending murder(s) is an “accessory” if they do not seek to prevent the crime. Certainly she had a moral duty to call 911, and a legal duty as well.

Can’t she be charged?????

[smileyface]

Terry Nichols is serving life in prison. Michael Fortier got 12 years.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/mcveigh/conspirators.html

[zeugma]

I’m no lawyer but someone who has such fairly specific knowledge of the time and place of impending murder(s) is an “accessory” if they do not seek to prevent the crime. Certainly she had a moral duty to call 911, and a legal duty as well.

The concept is actually fairly interesting when you think about it. Some can be an 'accessory' just by being aware and not taking actions to prevent it, yet the supreme court has ruled on separate occasions that the police have no actual 'duty to protect' any individual or place. So, though she could be charged for knowing about it and not doing anything about it, if she'd reported it to the police, and they did nothing with the information, they could not be. It's nice the way the system protects its own.