Impossibility at Law Glossary

What is it? a defense to a charge of attempted criminal activity that claims either that the defendant could not have factually or legally committed the envisioned offense even if he or she had been able to carry through the attempt to do so. It is, for example, factually impossible to kill someone who is already dead.

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