Joint criminal enterprise

Okay kiddo, let me explain what Joint Criminal Enterprise means. Imagine you and your friends are playing a game of tag. You and your friends agree to tag one kid named Jacob. But instead of tagging Jacob, you all end up tagging another kid named Alex. Even though you didn't plan to tag Alex, you and your friends are all responsible for tagging him because you all agreed to tag Jacob.

This is the basic idea of Joint Criminal Enterprise. It's when a group of people plan to commit a crime and even if one person does something different, they are all responsible for what happened. So, if you and your friends plan to rob a candy store but during the robbery, one of your friends shoots the shopkeeper, you and your friends are all responsible for the murder even if you didn't plan for it to happen.

In legal terms, it means that if two or more people agree to commit a crime, and one of them commits the crime, all of them are held accountable. They share the same criminal intent and the same plan, so they all become responsible for the consequences of the crime, even if one person acted alone. It's like holding a group of people accountable for their actions as a team.