What is the test for a party to be convicted of assisting the actual perpetrator of a murder?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from R v Sorokowski, 2018 MBPC 37 (CanLII):
The person aiding the individual who commits the murder must appreciate that the actual perpetrator intends to cause bodily harm of a kind likely to result in death, and be reckless whether death ensues or not. There is no requirement that the party desire that the victim die. However, the party must have the same intent as the person who actually committed the murder in order to be convicted (see Hibbert v. The Queen, (1995) 1995 CanLII 110 (SCC), 99 C.C.C. (3d) 193 (S.C.C)).
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