{"id":526,"date":"2012-10-19T07:52:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=526"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:31:37","slug":"89-conspiracy-the-prosecutors-favorite-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"89. Conspiracy: The Prosecutor&#8217;s Favorite Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-527\" title=\"Conspiracy27\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy27.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy27.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy27-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1ca38bb08294067745066' value='6a1ca38bb08294067745066'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1ca38bb08294067745066' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1ca38bb08294067745066' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1ca38bb08294067745066' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 10: We&#8217;ll All Go Down Together <br \/>Conspiracy pg 27: The Prosecutor&#8217;s Favorite Weapon<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, if Ledway had\u00a0<strong>stolen<\/strong> his second getaway car (instead of trading with Dan), then all of us conspirators would be liable as accomplices in the theft of the car.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vignette of Ledway speeding away<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d be liable under that rule even though we had\u00a0<strong>no idea<\/strong> that Ledway was going to do it.<\/p>\n<p>We conspired to commit crime A. Now, when crime B happens as a direct result, it is going to be attributed to\u00a0<strong>all of us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe explaining<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">No wonder Conspiracy is often called &#8220;the prosecutor&#8217;s favorite weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">They can charge you even though they can&#8217;t prove the &#8220;<strong>real<\/strong>&#8221; crime, and some can charge\u00a0<strong>everyone<\/strong> with everyone\u00a0<strong>else&#8217;s<\/strong> acts.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1ca38bb08294067745066' 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-526","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\/526","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=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}