{"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":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-524\" title=\"Conspiracy26\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy26.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy26-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e5f11a00e302028532260' value='69e5f11a00e302028532260'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e5f11a00e302028532260' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e5f11a00e302028532260' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e5f11a00e302028532260' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 10: We&#8217;ll All Go Down Together <br \/>Conspiracy pg 26: It Really Doesn&#8217;t Take Much<\/p>\n<p>Agreement, by the way, doesn&#8217;t have to be an explicit contract or even an oral communication. The agreement can be tacit, proven merely by one&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p>[SUGGESTED EDIT: Why not a picture of a Mafia Don nodding to a hit man, who then kills someone?]<\/p>\n<p>But what really sets Conspiracy apart from all other crimes is that now the State\u00a0<strong>doesn&#8217;t<\/strong> have to prove the\u00a0<strong>theft<\/strong> itself\u2060\u2014all it has to prove is the conspiracy, and it gets to punish us!<\/p>\n<p><em>The State looking smug<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>THE STATE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Well, that sure makes\u00a0<strong>my<\/strong> job a lot easier!<\/p>\n<p>Also, some jurisdictions (but by no means all) will say that each of us is guilty of\u00a0<strong>every<\/strong> crime committed by any other conspirator, so long as it was committed in furtherance of the conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e5f11a00e302028532260' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}