On Wednesday 30 April 2003 18:49, Andy Lopata wrote:
The only things that saves [cospiracy] from being a pure thought crime is that a conspiracy must be an actual agreement between two or more people to commit a crime (or fraud), and that an affirmative action must be taken in furtherance of the crime (in some drug-related offenses, this isn't even needed).
The "actual agreement" can be inferred by a creative prosecutor *. I don't remember the cases, but can dig out my criminal law case books if pressed. As usual in these discussions, this applies only to the U.S. * Unless that was overturned by the Supremes (unlikely, with the current court) or forbidden by Congress (yah, right) since I took Crim Law. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times of no duct tape better than duct tape will get you through times of no guns. -- Ron Kuby