Conspiracy

[Steve Furlong]

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.

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