[6] On the other hand, committing an offense under the US Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act merely requires "knowing",[7] that is, recklessness.
[16] Indeed, the ruling in Collins's Case L. and C. 471 was that an offender cannot be guilty of an attempt to steal his own umbrella when he mistakenly believes that it belongs to another.
Although the "moral guilt" for the attempt and the actual crime were the same, there was a distinction between the harm caused by a theft and the harmlessness of an impossible act.
A defendant may plead and prove, as an affirmative defense, that they: There is some scholarly treatment of burglaries in American law as inchoate crimes, but this is in dispute.
"[20] Other scholars warn about the consequences of such a theory: Burglary, as a preliminary step to another crime, can be seen as an inchoate, or incomplete, offense.
Gloves that a defendant was trying to shake off as he ran from the site of a burglary were identified as burglar's tools in Green v. State (Fla. App.