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lesser included offence
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lesser
included
offense
(
plural
lesser included offenses
)
(
law
)
A
crime
the
elements
of which coincide with the elements of a more serious crime, from which the
prosecutor
is therefore
precluded
from separately
charging
a
criminal
defendant
.
A
robbery
is an
assault
combined with a
theft
; a person can not be criminally charged with both the robbery and the assault that occurred during the robbery; the assault is a
lesser included offense
.
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