2012 Vermont Statutes
Title 13 Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 29 CONSPIRACY
§ 1406 Defense


13 V.S.A. § 1406. What's This?

§ 1406. Defense

It is a defense to a prosecution under this chapter that the defendant renounced his or her criminal purpose by:

(1) conduct designed to prevent the commission of the crime agreed upon; or

(2) giving timely notice to a law enforcement official of the conspiracy and of the defendant's part in it; or

(3) making a timely, positive statement to one or more of the other parties to the agreement that the defendant will not participate in the crime. (Added 1985, No. 183 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)

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