English

Noun
en-noun|sg=lesser included offense

1. 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

#:Example: A robbery is an assault combined with a theft; a person can not be criminally charged with both the robbery and the assault that occured during the robbery; the assault is a lesser included offense.

Category:Criminal law

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