Complicidad y Escape en el Estado de Washington

Explicación Simple

Complicidad es cuando alguien acepta dinero a cambio de no denunciar un crimen. Escape en primer grado es cuando alguien se escapa de la cárcel después de ser condenado por un delito grave.

Es como si alguien tuviera un secreto y, a cambio de no contarle a nadie, le pidieran que les diera un regalo. Si esa persona se escapa de su casa después de haber sido castigada, sería como romper las reglas de la casa.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan ve que su amigo Pedro robó una tienda. Si Juan acepta un pago de Pedro para no decirle a la policía, estaría cometiendo complicidad. Por otro lado, si Pedro es arrestado y luego escapa de la cárcel, eso sería un escape en primer grado.

Penalidades

Complicidad es un delito menor grave. Escape en primer grado es un delito grave de clase B.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

RCW 9A.76.100 - Compounding (1) A person is guilty of compounding if:(a) He requests, accepts, or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit pursuant to an agreement or understanding that he will refrain from initiating a prosecution for a crime; or(b) He confers, or offers or agrees to confer, any pecuniary benefit upon another pursuant to an agreement or understanding that such other person will refrain from initiating a prosecution for a crime.(2) In any prosecution under this section, it is a defense if established by a preponderance of the evidence that the pecuniary benefit did not exceed an amount which the defendant reasonably believed to be due as restitution or indemnification for harm caused by the crime.(3) Compounding is a gross misdemeanor. RCW 9A.76.110 - Escape in the first degree (1) A person is guilty of escape in the first degree if he or she knowingly escapes from custody or a detention facility while being detained pursuant to a conviction of a felony or an equivalent juvenile offense.(2) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that uncontrollable circumstances prevented the person from remaining in custody or in the detention facility or from returning to custody or to the detention facility, and that the person did not contribute to the creation of such circumstances in reckless disregard of the requirement to remain or return, and that the person returned to custody or the detention facility as soon as such circumstances ceased to exist.(3) Escape in the first degree is a class B felony.