# What happens if a conjoined twin commits a crime? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-conjoined-twin-commits-a-crime/813001 "2018-04-23T22:13:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-conjoined-twin-commits-a-crime/813001/21 "2018-04-25T08:55:22Z")
The second one know of the crime, so is an accessory after the fact, if not an actual accomplice for enabling the commission of the crime. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-conjoined-twin-commits-a-crime/813001/22 "2018-04-25T16:44:27Z")
> [@Delicious](#): > > Maybe he meant more die from falling coconuts than falling sharks. How many jets are killed by sharks? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-conjoined-twin-commits-a-crime/813001/23 "2018-04-25T18:05:38Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > I believe the best answer would be to incorporate the sibling into the sentence, there would have to be a very special allowance made for this type of situation. At a minimum, extended visiting hours. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-conjoined-twin-commits-a-crime/813001/24 "2018-04-25T18:55:10Z")
[Prior thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=819043&highlight=siamese+twin). ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-conjoined-twin-commits-a-crime/813001/25 "2018-04-26T00:01:28Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > The guilty twin goes inside the jail cell, the other gets to wander free outside the cell. That’s why they have bars instead of walls. > > [sub]Maybe?[/sub] Well, this is basically the solution they came up with in **Welcome to Night Vale** when 4 out of 5 heads of a 5-headed dragon tried to kill the mayor. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-conjoined-twin-commits-a-crime/813001/26 "2018-04-26T00:59:02Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > The second one know of the crime, so is an accessory after the fact, if not an actual accomplice for enabling the commission of the crime. Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence. 🆒 No? Yeah, I felt cool for a sec. :o ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-conjoined-twin-commits-a-crime/813001/27 "2018-04-26T11:53:39Z")
So what if one twin is a drug user and the non-user tests positive because they have mixed bloodstreams. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-conjoined-twin-commits-a-crime/813001/28 "2018-04-26T13:12:47Z")
Two threads, and nobody brought up the Tales from the Crypt episode “[My Brother’s Keeper](http://tftc.wikia.com/wiki/My_Brother%27s_Keeper)”, which deals with this exact scenario? Long story short, two cojoined twins disagree about separation surgery. One was all for it, and the other didn’t want to take the risk. Eventually, the “for-it” twin commits a murder while drunk, and subsequently the two pass out. When they awake in the hospital, the murdering twin is jazzed about how they can’t punish him without punishing the innocent twin, so he will get away with it. The twist, of course, is that the innocent twin, who had heretofore resisted signing the consent for surgery, had done so before passing out, and the story ends with him being wheeled out of the room while the cops arrest the other, now separated, twin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-conjoined-twin-commits-a-crime/813001.md?page=1)