While watching a CSI rerun the other day, where the convoluted plot involved an attempted frame-up for murder and arson, a strange thought occurred to me as all the guilty folks were perp-walked away. I’ve seen hundreds of dramas where someone attempted to set another person up to take the rap for a crime, and when they get caught, they are prosecuted for the crime itself, but I don’t recall anyone ever being charged with a crime for trying to get someone else locked up. But it seems to me that should be a crime of some kind, just by itself. Is it?
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While watching a CSI rerun the other day, where the convoluted plot involved an attempted frame-up for murder and arson, a strange thought occurred to me as all the guilty folks were perp-walked away. I’ve seen hundreds of dramas where someone attempted to set another person up to take the rap for a crime, and when they get caught, they are prosecuted for the crime itself, but I don’t recall anyone ever being charged with a crime for trying to get someone else locked up. But it seems to me that should be a crime of some kind, just by itself. Is it?
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It depends on exactly what they did to make it look like the other person did it.
Obstruction of justice is always a good starting point. Then tack on everything, including littering and jaywalking, that the person did while framing the other person..
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While watching a CSI rerun the other day, where the convoluted plot involved an attempted frame-up for murder and arson, a strange thought occurred to me as all the guilty folks were perp-walked away. I’ve seen hundreds of dramas where someone attempted to set another person up to take the rap for a crime, and when they get caught, they are prosecuted for the crime itself, but I don’t recall anyone ever being charged with a crime for trying to get someone else locked up. But it seems to me that should be a crime of some kind, just by itself. Is it?
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This New York law might apply: