A Defendant May Not Succeed in Completing a Crime and Will

A defendant may not succeed in completing a crime and will not be liable for the attempted crime if

A) the defendant could get concerned that the police were about to intercept his ongoing actions and stop committing a crime out of fear of being caught.
B) the police could stop the ultimate harm prior to it happening by catching the defendant in a later stage of planning the crime.
C) the defendant's plan to commit a crime fails in the process of committing it.
D) the defendant chooses to not carry out the initial actions needed to begin to implement the criminal act.