Question: What can happen to you if you are found guilty of aiding and abetting?
Answer: It depends upon what crime the person aided and abetted. An accomplice to someone
who commits a crime faces the same sentence as the primary offender. For instance,
if Bob Smith goes into a bank and robs it at gunpoint, and Sally Jones who does
not go into the bank, drives Bob from the bank in the getaway car, knowing what
Bob is doing, she faces the same charge - Armed Robbery - as Bob and the same
penalty as if she had been the one to actually enter and rob the bank.
An accomplice is defined by Arizona law (ARS 13-301) as a person who with the
intent to promote or facilitate the commission of an offense:
1) solicits or commands another person to commit the offense;
2) aids, counsels, agrees to aid or attempts to aid another person in planning
or committing the offense; or
3) provides means or opportunity to another person to commit the offense.
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