Quote Originally Posted by Cleatus View Post
Your only decision was to report the scores if he used them not go to bed and hide your head in the sand. You are just as guilty as the rest. In court you'd be treated just as harsh.

The legal term you allude to is "accessory before the fact."



How accessory before the fact is defined:

An accessory must generally have knowledge that a crime is being, or will be committed. A person with such knowledge may become an accessory by helping or encouraging the criminal in some way, or simply by failing to report the crime to proper authority. The assistance to the criminal may be of any type, including emotional or financial assistance as well as physical assistance or concealment.



To be convicted of an accessory charge, the accused must generally be proved to have had actual knowledge that a crime was going to be, or had been, committed. Furthermore, there must be proof that the accessory knew that his or her action, or inaction, was helping the criminals commit the crime, or evade detection, or escape.