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If a suspicious character in a mask with a gun and an incriminating note for the teller shows up at a bank two hours after its closed, is that "attempted robbery"?
I research legal issues all the time, but that one kind of throws me.![]()
A good case could be made that it is attempted robbery:
https://definitions.uslegal.com/a/attempted-crime/
A person can be charged with an attempted crime (such as "attempted robbery" or "attempted murder") even though not all the elements of the underlying crime were completed in order to be found guilty of the actual crime.
The following must occur for a person to be guilty of an attempted crime.
1.Criminal shows intent to commit a crime, and
2.the criminal comes dangerously close to successfully completing the crime but somehow does not complete all of the required elements.
Because the aspiring robber got the bank hours wrong would hardly alone stop that person from being charged with attempted robbery.