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2025 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 5. SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Subchapter VI. Offenses Against Public Administration
§ 1247. Defense to compounding a crime.
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§ 1247. Defense to compounding a crime.
In any prosecution for compounding a crime, it is an affirmative defense that the benefit did not exceed the amount which the accused believed to be due as restitution or indemnification for harm caused by the crime.
11 Del. C. 1953, § 1247; 58 Del. Laws, c. 497, § 1;
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