Spontaneous Desistance

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1. What role does spontaneous desistance play in Article6’s attempt definition?
2. Is a good or morally admirable motive indispensable to spontaneous desistance?
3. Does spontaneous desistance from the intended further felony necessarily erase a different offense already completed by…
4. An attacker stops before completing the necessary execution acts because a bystander pins his arms and prevents further…
5. A person freely abandons further necessary execution acts from remorse before the intended felony is complete, with no …
6. During an attack, offenders inflict injuries but freely stop before the further acts needed for the intended killing of…
7. A thief completes an unlawful taking with all theft elements present, then regrets the act and returns the property. He…
8. Explain the timing and freedom requirements of spontaneous desistance in the attempted-felony inquiry.
9. Does spontaneous desistance require an admirable motive and erase all earlier injury?
10. Why is restitution after consummation different from desistance before completion of execution?
11. Whose discontinuance is relevant to the “own spontaneous desistance” phrase in Article 6?
12. Is a temporary pause solely to reload and continue the same attack necessarily abandonment?