Substantive Crime

Substantive Crime

Definition

A crime that does not have, as one of its elements, the performance of some other crime; for example, a defendant's conviction for the non-substantive crime of conspiring to rob a bank requires proof that the defendant agreed with others and took steps to commit some other crime, namely the substantive crime of bank robbery.

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