Is there any case law where an accomplice has been found guilty of a crime?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Em, B295019 (Cal. App. 2019):
1021-1022.) Caution is warranted due to an accomplice's "natural incentive to minimize his own guilt before the jury and to enlarge that of his cohorts . . . ." (People v. Brown (2003) 31 Cal.4th 518, 555.)
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