CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 400
Aiding and Abetting: General Principles
A person may be guilty of a crime in two ways. One, he or she may have
directly committed the crime. I will call that person the perpetrator.
Two, he or she may have aided and abetted a perpetrator, who directly
committed the crime.
A person is guilty of a crime whether he or she committed it personally
or aided and abetted the perpetrator.
New January 2006; Revised June 2007, August 2009, April 2010, February 2026
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- courts.ca.gov
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- 2026-08-20
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- calcrim-2026
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