Question

Karla has found herself out of work and with no marketable job skills. She is a former beauty contest winner and had been employed as a receptionist at a local bank. Her roommate Jackie works as a kindergarten teacher but her salary is too small to pay 100% of the costs for rent and food. Karla knows that the bank president, Michael, keeps $10,000 in his home so she decides to steal that money. Knowing that Michael will be away for the weekend, she goes to his home, picks the lock on his backdoor and enters his home. In his bedroom she finds his safe but cannot open it. It is also too heavy for her to carry out. Frustrated, she simply leaves without taking anything. Now desperate for money, she runs into Barbara and Pamela, two former friends from her beauty pageant days. They too are jobless and unmarketable. They develop a plan to rob Karla's former boss on August 8th. The plan includes the purchase of masks and the use of a gun, though they intend it for show and won't even load it. On August 7th, Barbara purchases the masks and Pamela visits an old boyfriend and while there, steals his pistol. On August 8th, Pamela steals a car making the driver hand over the keys by flashing the gun in his face. The car will be used for transportation to Michael's home and for the getaway. They intend to sell the car to a chop shop the next day. When the three of them arrive at Michael's house, they see the FBI is there discussing bank security and that there are six agents on the premises. Karla, Barbara, and Pamela abandon their plan and go back to Karla's apartment. Karla hides the masks and gun in a box under her bed and takes the car to the chop shop to get whatever cash she can. When she returns, she splits the money with Pamela and Barbara and they decide to go their separate ways never to see each other again. That afternoon, while vacuuming the apartment, Jackie sees the box with the masks and gun. Later, while watching the news, she sees footage of three persons in a car outside Michael's home, sitting in a car and wearing masks similar to those under Karla's bed. The news caster says that the police are investigating and anyone with information regarding the three should call the authorities. Without speaking to Karla she retrieves the box and incinerates the masks and gun to protect her friend.

When Jackie incinerates the masks and gun, she is guilty of:

Multiple Choice

Larceny.

Obstruction of justice and being an accessory after the fact.

Being an accessory after the fact only.

Obstruction of justice only.

Conspiracy.

Answer 1

Obstruction of justice and being an accessory after the fact.

Reason: since Jackie destroyed all evidence through which Karla could be caught (which makes her guilty of obstruction of justice) and also does it with complete knowledge of the situation in order to avoid arrest of the one police is looking for (which makes her guilty for accessory after the fact), it makes Jackie guilty of both Obstruction of justice and being an accessory after the fact.