{"data":{"id":"us-ak/as-11.16.120","jurisdiction":"us-ak","citation":"AS 11.16.120","heading":"Exemptions to legal accountability for conduct of another.","body":"(a) In a prosecution for an offense in which legal accountability is based on the conduct of another person,\n(1) it is an affirmative defense that the defendant, under circumstances manifesting a voluntary and complete renunciation of criminal intent,\n(A) terminated the defendant's complicity before the commission of the offense;\n(B) wholly deprived the defendant's complicity of its effectiveness in the commission of the offense; and\n(C) gave timely warning to law enforcement authorities or, if timely warning could not be given to law enforcement authorities by reasonable efforts, otherwise made a reasonable effort to prevent the commission of the offense;\n(2) it is not a defense that\n(A) the other person has not been prosecuted for or convicted of an offense based upon the conduct in question or has been convicted of a different offense or degree of offense;\n(B) the offense, as defined, can be committed only by a particular class of persons to which the defendant does not belong, and the defendant is for that reason legally incapable of committing the offense in an individual capacity; or\n(C) the other person is not guilty of the offense.\n(b) Except as otherwise provided by a provision of law defining an offense, a person is not legally accountable for the conduct of another constituting an offense if\n(1) the person is the victim of the offense; or\n(2) the offense is so defined that the person's conduct is inevitably incidental to its commission.","path":["Title 11. Criminal Law.","Chapter 16. Parties to Crime."],"source_url":"https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#11.16.120","current_through":"Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:16:41Z","sha256":"9beb0c8d0b286a62a7863bdbd4f69567c1f0c0c5436d3c0371a6323cb25a49f0","source_id":"us-ak","stale":false,"prev":"us-ak/as-11.16.110","next":"us-ak/as-11.16.130"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}