Common purpose (law)

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* Freedom of speech
* Rebuttable presumption
* Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006
* Japanese-American concentration camps
* Stare decisis
* Property
* Autism omnibus trial
* Berkeley Free Speech Movement
* Personhood laws
* Texas v. Johnson
* Sex worker-exclusionary radical feminism
* List of actions prohibited by the Bible

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Common purpose is a legal doctrine stating that all participants in a crime are responsible for its consequences, even if it wasn't the original intention. For example, if a gang of criminals agrees to rob a building by knocking out the security guard, they are all deemed guilty of murder if the knocker-out kills the guard. One of the more notorious uses of common purpose was the trial of the Sharpeville six, a group of protesters in Apartheid-era South Africa sentenced to death when the mob they were part of murdered a local politician.

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