One need not succeed in a crime to be punished for the crime. Take enough sufficient steps towards the commission of it, and you're in deep enough. Otherwise, thwarted efforts would go unpunished.
"One need not succeed in a crime to be punished for the crime. Take enough sufficient steps towards the commission of it, and you're in deep enough. Otherwise, thwarted efforts would go unpunished."
What is the crime? He was sleeping in his car, about to commit a crime, maybe? I think a first year law student should be able to get this guy off.
Unless, he was in the getaway car and we have only half of the story.