
Journal mercedo's Journal: A Problem Of Plot Crime 4
We are discussing whether we ought to implement 'plot crime' in criminal code. The only problem this law has is this law will affect just an ordinary people rather than criminal people.
For criminal people they will violate this law without hesitation. They are criminal because they violate not only other law but this law too. Ordinary people start to try to respect this law as much as they can, that results in restricting the freedom of expression soon drastically.
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For example, if three people conspire to rob a bank, and if one of them during the robbery shoots and kills someone, then all three can be charged and convicted of murder, because they were all part of the same conspiracy.
The reason is that if, for a slightly different example, those three people had taken a
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Plot crime is different from conspiracy. The crimes are neither carried out, nor planned, but just being talked about or discussed
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I don't think that that is right in the least. The core basis of criminal law is intent. The difference between talking about a crime and planning a crime is the intent to actually commit that crime. By that definition, they could arrest just about every writer in the country!
I don't know if Japan has the equivilent o