{"id":523,"date":"2012-10-19T07:51:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=523"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:32:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:32:43","slug":"88-conspiracy-a-big-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"88. Conspiracy: A Big Net"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law Chapter 10: We’ll All Go Down Together Conspiracy pg 26: It Really Doesn’t Take Much<\/p>\n
Agreement, by the way, doesn’t have to be an explicit contract or even an oral communication. The agreement can be tacit, proven merely by one’s actions.<\/p>\n
[SUGGESTED EDIT: Why not a picture of a Mafia Don nodding to a hit man, who then kills someone?]<\/p>\n
But what really sets Conspiracy apart from all other crimes is that now the State\u00a0doesn’t<\/strong> have to prove the\u00a0theft<\/strong> itself\u2060\u2014all it has to prove is the conspiracy, and it gets to punish us!<\/p>\n
The State looking smug<\/em><\/p>\n
THE STATE<\/em><\/p>\n
Well, that sure makes\u00a0my<\/strong> job a lot easier!<\/p>\n
Also, some jurisdictions (but by no means all) will say that each of us is guilty of\u00a0every<\/strong> crime committed by any other conspirator, so long as it was committed in furtherance of the conspiracy.<\/p>\n
So when Bahr brought a gun to the bank and started waving it around, all of us would be guilty of that crime, too, in addition to the theft of the Maguffin.<\/p>\n
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