mercedo's Journal: A Problem Of Plot Crime

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.

Conspiracy?

[Shadow Wrought]

I think what you are talking about is what we call "conspiracy" over here. That is, it is illegal to plan with other people the commission of a crime. Indeed, it can be pretty harsh over here, too.

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

Re:Conspiracy?

[Degrees]

Another source of conspiracy: if an attorney and his client discuss a plan to tamper with a case (for example, plotting the murder of a witness), that qualifies as conspiracy.

Re:Conspiracy?

[mercedo]

Different. It is different from conspiracy. If someone has been charged with conspiracy to murder, he is guilty of conspiracy even if he didn't commit murder it doesn't care. Suppose a murder was carried out actually by only one offender but if this heinous crime was plotted by more people other than the offender, those people ought to be charged with conspiracy. It is no doubt.

Plot crime is different from conspiracy. The crimes are neither carried out, nor planned, but just being talked about or discussed

Re:Conspiracy?

[Shadow Wrought]

That is significantly different. So, as I understand it, if you and are talking about murder, not to be carried out but because we are writers discussing our craft, that is now a crime?

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