Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Florida

Re: Witnesses

Generally speaking, the law does not require bystanders to intervene in order to prevent a crime, even where they can do so with little or no risk. Some states have made a small number of exceptions to this general rule. Many other countries do require such intervention.

Even where the law does require such intervention, a violation of that law would not amount to a violation of the underlying crime. In other words, if I fail to aid an assault victim in a state that requires me to do so, I am guilty of failure to aid but I am not guilty of assault.