In this Chapter, unless the context requires a different definition, the following shall apply:
AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE
Has the meaning specified in Section 556.056, RSMo.
BURDEN OF INJECTING THE ISSUE
Has the meaning specified in Section 556.051, RSMo.
COMMERCIAL FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT PROCESSOR
Any person who develops exposed photographic film into negatives, slides or prints or who makes prints from negatives or slides for compensation. The term "commercial film and photographic print processor" shall include all employees of such persons but shall not include a person who develops film or makes prints for a public agency.
CONFINEMENT
1. 
A person is in confinement when he/she is held in a place of confinement pursuant to arrest or order of a court and remains in confinement until:
a. 
A court orders his/her release;
b. 
He/she is released on bail, bond or recognizance, personal or otherwise; or
c. 
A public servant having the legal power and duty to confine him/her authorizes his/her release without guard and without condition that he/she return to confinement.
2. 
A person is not in confinement if:
a. 
He/she is on probation or parole, temporary or otherwise; or
b. 
He/she is under sentence to serve a term of confinement which is not continuous or is serving a sentence under a work-release program, and in either such case is not being held in a place of confinement or is not being held under guard by a person having the legal power and duty to transport him/her to or from a place of confinement.
CONSENT
Consent or lack of consent may be expressed or implied. Assent does not constitute consent if:
1. 
It is given by a person who lacks the mental capacity to authorize the conduct charged to constitute the offense and such mental incapacity is manifest or known to the actor;
2. 
It is given by a person who by reason of youth, mental disease or defect, intoxication, a drug-induced state, or any other reason is manifestly unable or known by the actor to be unable to make a reasonable judgment as to the nature or harmfulness of the conduct charged to constitute the offense; or
3. 
It is induced by force, duress or deception.
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE
Has the meaning specified in Section 562.016, RSMo.
CUSTODY
A person is in custody when he/she has been arrested but has not been delivered to a place of confinement.
DANGEROUS FELONY
The felonies of arson in the first degree, assault in the first degree, attempted rape in the first degree if physical injury results, attempted forcible rape if physical injury results, attempted sodomy in the first degree if physical injury results, attempted forcible sodomy if physical injury results, rape in the first degree, forcible rape, sodomy in the first degree, forcible sodomy, kidnapping, murder in the second degree, assault of a Law Enforcement Officer in the first degree, domestic assault in the first degree, elder abuse in the first degree, robbery in the first degree, statutory rape in the first degree when the victim is a child less than twelve (12) years of age at the time of the commission of the act giving rise to the offense, statutory sodomy in the first degree when the victim is a child less than twelve (12) years of age at the time of a commission of the act giving rise to the offense, and, abuse of a child if the child dies as a result of injuries sustained from conduct chargeable under Section 568.060, RSMo., child kidnapping, and parental kidnapping committed by detaining or concealing the whereabouts of the child for not less than one hundred twenty (120) days under Section 565.153, RSMo.
DANGEROUS INSTRUMENT
Any instrument, article or substance which, under the circumstances in which it is used, is readily capable of causing death or other serious physical injury.
DEADLY WEAPON
Any firearm, loaded or unloaded, or any weapon from which a shot, readily capable of producing death or serious physical injury, may be discharged or a switchblade knife, dagger, billy, blackjack or metal knuckles.
FELONY
Has the meaning specified in Section 556.016, RSMo.
FORCIBLE COMPULSION
Means either:
1. 
Physical force that overcomes reasonable resistance; or
2. 
A threat, express or implied, that places a person in reasonable fear of death, serious physical injury, or kidnapping of himself/herself or another person.
INCAPACITATED
That physical or mental condition, temporary or permanent, in which a person is unconscious, unable to appraise the nature of his/her conduct, or unable to communicate unwillingness to an act.
INFRACTION
Has the meaning specified in Section 556.021, RSMo.
INHABITABLE STRUCTURE
Has the meaning specified in Section 569.010, RSMo.
KNOWINGLY
Has the meaning specified in Section 562.016, RSMo.
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
Any public servant having both the power and duty to make arrests for violations of the laws of this State, and Federal Law Enforcement Officers authorized to carry firearms and to make arrests for violations of the laws of the United States.
MISDEMEANOR
Has the meaning specified in Section 556.016, RSMo.
OFFENSE
Any felony, misdemeanor or infraction.
PHYSICAL INJURY
Physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition.
PLACE OF CONFINEMENT
Any building or facility and the grounds thereof wherein a court is legally authorized to order that a person charged with or convicted of a crime be held.
POSSESS or POSSESSED
Having actual or constructive possession of an object with knowledge of its presence. A person has actual possession if he/she has the object on his/her person or within easy reach and convenient control. A person has constructive possession if he/she has the power and the intention at a given time to exercise dominion or control over the object either directly or through another person or persons. Possession may also be sole or joint. If one (1) person alone has possession of an object, possession is sole. If two (2) or more persons share possession of an object, possession is joint.
PUBLIC SERVANT
Any person employed in any way by a government of this State who is compensated by the government by reason of his/her employment, any person appointed to a position with any government of this State, or any person elected to a position with any government of this State. It includes, but is not limited to, legislators, jurors, members of the judiciary and Law Enforcement Officers. It does not include witnesses.
PURPOSELY
Has the meaning specified in Section 562.016, RSMo.
RECKLESSLY
Has the meaning specified in Section 562.016, RSMo.
RITUAL or CEREMONY
An act or series of acts performed by two (2) or more persons as part of an established or prescribed pattern of activity.
SERIOUS EMOTIONAL INJURY
An injury that creates a substantial risk of temporary or permanent medical or psychological damage manifested by impairment of a behavioral, cognitive or physical condition. "Serious emotional injury" shall be established by testimony of qualified experts upon the reasonable expectation of probable harm to a reasonable degree of medical or psychological certainty.
SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY
Physical injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes serious disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any part of the body.
SEXUAL CONDUCT
Acts of human masturbation; deviate sexual intercourse; sexual intercourse; or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or the breast of a female in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification.
SEXUAL CONTACT
Any touching of the genitals or anus of any person, or the breast of any female person, or any such touching through the clothing for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire of any person.
SEXUAL PERFORMANCE
Any performance, or part thereof, which includes sexual conduct by a child who is less than seventeen (17) years of age.
VOLUNTARY ACT
Has the meaning specified in Section 562.011, RSMo.
A. 
A person is guilty of attempt to commit an offense when, with the purpose of committing the offense, he/she does any act which is a substantial step towards the commission of the offense. A "substantial step" is conduct which is strongly corroborative of the firmness of the actor's purpose to complete the commission of the offense.
B. 
It is no defense to a prosecution under this Section that the offense attempted was, under the actual attendant circumstances, factually or legally impossible of commission, if such offense could have been committed had the attendant circumstances been as the actor believed them to be.
A. 
A person is guilty of conspiracy with another person or persons to commit an offense if, with the purpose of promoting or facilitating its commission he/she agrees with such other person or persons that they or one (1) or more of them will engage in conduct which constitutes such offense.
B. 
If a person guilty of conspiracy knows that a person with whom he/she conspires to commit an offense has conspired with another person or persons to commit the same offense, he/she is guilty of conspiring with such other person or persons to commit such offense, whether or not he/she knows their identity.
C. 
If a person conspires to commit a number of offenses, he/she is guilty of only one (1) conspiracy so long as such multiple offenses are the object of the same agreement.
D. 
No person may be convicted of conspiracy to commit an offense unless an overt act in pursuance of such conspiracy is alleged and proved to have been done by him/her or by a person with whom he/she conspired.
E. 
Exception.
1. 
No one shall be convicted of conspiracy if, after conspiring to commit the offense, he/she prevented the accomplishment of the objectives of the conspiracy under circumstances manifesting a renunciation of his/her criminal purpose.
2. 
The defendant shall have the burden of injecting the issue of renunciation of criminal purpose under Subparagraph (1) of this Subsection.
F. 
For the purpose of time limitations on prosecutions:
1. 
Conspiracy is a continuing course of conduct which terminates when the offense or offenses which are its object are committed or the agreement that they be committed is abandoned by the defendant and by those with whom he/she conspired.
2. 
If an individual abandons the agreement, the conspiracy is terminated as to him/her only if he/she advises those with whom he/she has conspired of his/her abandonment or he/she informs the law enforcement authorities of the existence of the conspiracy and of his/her participation in it.
G. 
A person may not be charged, convicted or sentenced on the basis of the same course of conduct of both the actual commission of an offense and a conspiracy to commit that offense.