Summary: The Crime Of Conspiracy

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The Crime of Conspiracy
This week’s I am writing my reaction paper about The Crime of Conspiracy. I used to assume that for an act to be considering criminal the act had to be carried out. Which is not one hundred percent correct some crimes consist of actions like a conspiracy, which is known as an incomplete or inchoate crime.
What is a conspiracy? Conspiracy is an agreement willfully between two or more people on an act to commit a crime, them those people will be considered guilty of conspiracy whether the offense is committed or not. For a person to be charged with conspiracy, the plan must have to be put into some action.
Before I get into the crime of conspiracy, let me explain what the requirement of an agreement to commit a crime. …show more content…

The offenders do not have to write or verbal agreements any actions take towards meeting their final goal of the plan constitutes the conspiracy. Another way to look at the crime of conspiracy is that all individuals involved must want to achieve the same outcome. They are a few step that offender need to meet to be charged with the crime committed. The first phase has two parts, is the mens rea requirement which has two phases. The first step is that the perpetrators must have intended to agree to commit a crime. The second step is that the criminal must have designed to accomplish the final goal of the conspiracy when a person decides to commit the offense. The second part, the agreement does not need to be explicitly carried out. Which mean, the authorities do not have to have a verbal or written agreement from the person to be guilty of conspiracy. It is only required that some action was taken the two or more criminal minds. As far as the actus reus, requirement for conspiracy is concerned, at common law, a conspiracy is completed as soon as an agreement between one or more people is made (Samaha, 2014). In the case of Williams v. the United States, 218 F.2d 276 (4th Cir. 1954) the appellants were found guilty of conspiracy. They were trial together since if taken them court one by one the charge will not have held but charge them as a group prosecutor had enough evidence to prove the

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