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karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu writes:
   >Anyone who witnesses a crime and does nothing to stop it is a party to
   >it.  In fact, screwed up though the USA legal system surely is, it
   >makes a lot of sense that certain crimes are defined in terms of the
   >failure _of_the_citizenry_ to report other crimes.

kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
   In general, a citzen is under no legal obligation to report a crime.
   The only exceptions I can think of involve child abuse and doctors.

I did not say anything about the general case, and quite specifically
mentioned "certain crimes"; having spent several years as a foster
parent, child abuse was the primary example on my mind at the time of
that writing.

--karl