CPF · Article 14

Article 14 Federal Criminal Code

BOOK ONE · TITLE ONE. Criminal Responsibility · CHAPTER III. Persons responsible for crimes

Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026

If several offenders take part in the carrying out of a determined crime and one of them commits a different crime, without prior agreement with the others, all shall be responsible for the commission of the new crime, unless the following requirements concur:

I.- That the new crime does not serve as an adequate means to commit the principal one;

II.- That the former is not a necessary or natural consequence of the latter, or of the agreed means;

III.- That they did not know beforehand that the new crime was going to be committed, and

IV.- That they were not present at the execution of the new crime, or that, having been present, they did everything on their part to prevent it.

How to cite

Federal Criminal Code, Article 14. https://articuladomx.com/en/federal-criminal-code/article-14/

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Corpus 2026.10.08