Conspiracy in United States
Conspiracy Definition
(Lat. con, together, spiro, to breathe). In criminal law. A combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some Eurpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, y criminal or unlawful means. 2 Mass. 337, 538; 4 Mete. (Mass.) Ill; 4 Wend. (N. Y.) 229; 15 N. H. 396; 5 Har. & J. (Md.) 317; 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 220; 12 Conn. 101; 11 Clark & F. 155; 4 Mich. 414.
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(Lat. con, together, spiro, to breathe). In criminal law. A combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some Eurpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, y criminal or unlawful means. 2 Mass. 337, 538; 4 Mete. (Mass.) Ill; 4 Wend. (N. Y.) 229; 15 N. H. 396; 5 Har. & J. (Md.) 317; 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 220; 12 Conn. 101; 11 Clark & F. 155; 4 Mich. 414.
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An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime. All the conspirators must share the intention to accomplish, by concerted action, the act that they plan. The act the conspirators agree to do need never be done; the conspiracy itself is a crime. See aiding (in U.S. law) and abetting (in U.S. law).
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Conspiracy (Civil Rights Law)
This section introduces, discusses and describes the basics of conspiracy. Then, cross references and a brief overview about Civil Rights Lawin relation to conspiracy is provided. Note that a list of bibliography resources and other aids appears at the end of this entry.
Conspiracy
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Conspiracy in the U.S. Code: Title 18, Part I, Chapter 19
The current, permanent, in-force federal laws regulating conspiracy are compiled in the United States Code under Title 18, Part I, Chapter 19. It constitutes “prima facie” evidence of statutes relating to Crimes and Criminal Law (including conspiracy) of the United States. The readers can further narrow their legal research on the topic by chapter and subchapter.
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Further Reading (Books)
American Law Institute. Model Penal Code: Proposed Official Draft. Philadelphia: ALI, 1962.
–. Model Penal Code: Tentative Draft No. 10. Philadelphia: ALI, 1960.
Coke, Edward. The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminal Causes (1641). London: E. & R. Brooke, 1797.
Developments in the Law. “Criminal Conspiracy.” Harvard Law Review 72 (1959): 920-1008.
Filvaroff, David B. “Conspiracy and the First Amendment.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 121 (1972): 189-253.
Harno, Albert J. “Intent in Criminal Conspiracy.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 89 (1941): 624-647.
Johnson, Phillip E. “The Unnecessary Crime of Conspiracy.” California Law Review 61 (1973): 1137-1188.
Levie, Joseph H. “Hearsay and Conspiracy: A Reexamination of the Co-conspirators’ Exception to the Hearsay Rule.” Michigan Law Review 52 (1954): 1159-1178.
Marcus, Paul. The Prosecution and Defense of Criminal Conspiracy Cases. New York: M. Bender, 1978-1990.
Mitford, Jessica. The Trial of Dr. Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman, and Marcus Raskin. New York: Knopf, 1969.
Note. “Conspiracy: Statutory Reform since the Model Penal Code.” Columbia Law Review 75 (1975): 1122-1188.
Sayre, Francis. “Criminal Conspiracy.” Harvard Law Review 35 (1922): 393-427.
Turner, Marjorie B. S. The Early American Labor ConspiracyCases-Their Place in Labor Law: A Reinterpretation. San Diego. Calif.: San Diego State College Press, 1967.
U.S. National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws. Final Report: A Proposed New Federal Criminal Code (Title 18, United States Code). Washington, D.C.: The Commission, 1971.
–. Working Papers, vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: The Commission, 1970.
Wellington, Harry H. Labor and the Legal Process. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1968.
Wright, Robert S. The Law of Criminal Conspiracies and Agreements. Philadelphia: Blackstone, 1887.
Bassano, Joseph J. Conspiracy. Vol. 16 of American Jurisprudence. 2d ed. Rochester, N.Y.: Lawyers Co-operative Publishing, 1998.
Davis, Beth Allison, and Josh Vitullo. “Federal Criminal Conspiracy.” American Criminal Law Review 38 (2001): 777-817. An annual survey of the state of the law.
Fenster, Mark. Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Forkosch, Morris D. “The Doctrine of Criminal Conspiracy and Its Modern Application to Labor.” Texas Law Review 40 (1962): 303-338, 473-508.
Goldstein, Abraham S. “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States.” Yale Law Journal 68 (1959): 405-463.
Selz, Shirley A. “Conspiracy Law in Theory and in Practice: Federal Conspiracy Prosecutions in Chicago.” American Journal of Criminal Law 5 (1977): 35-71.
M. SusanMurnane
Further Reading (Articles)
Conspiracy Theories: Public Arguments as Coded Social Critiques: A Rhetorical Analysis of the TWA Flight 800 Conspiracy Theories, Argumentation and Advocacy; June 22, 2002; Miller, Shane
Conspiracy Rising: Conspiracy Thinking and American Public Life, Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA); December 1, 2012; Bronson, Zachary
“Conspiracy Theory” and Sound Argumentation: The Method of Cocaine Politics for Resolving “Conflicting World Views” (Excerpt), ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; April 1, 2004; Bouknight, Jon
Conspiracy Against Blacks? Sure, Why Not?, The Washington Post; December 23, 1989; William Raspberry
Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture, Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA); June 1, 2009; Neal, Arthur G
HORNER: Conspiracy theories revel in their vagueness, improbability, The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO); January 25, 2011; John Horner;
Conspiracy in the French Revolution.(Book review), Canadian Journal of History; December 22, 2009; Jainchill, Andrew
Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From. (book reviews), History Today; August 1, 1998; Foss, Clive
The Conspiracy Conspiracy ; Five Myths That THEY Want You to Believe. by Jesse Walker | Illustrations by Wesley Bedrosian, The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); October 20, 2013; Walker, Jesse
Conspiracy Theories, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture; January 1, 2000
Criminal Conspiracy, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution; January 1, 2000
Tying Conspiracies, William and Mary Law Review; May 1, 2007; Leslie, Christopher R.
Federal criminal conspiracy, American Criminal Law Review; April 1, 2003; Casey, Carrie Marino, Lisa
Conspiracy doc compelling… or is it?, Winnipeg Free Press; October 20, 2011; TV, Brad Oswald Watching
Conspiracy Theories in African American Culture: A Concept Analysis, Journal of Theory Construction and Testing; April 1, 2009; Harris, Allyssa L
Conspiracy Theory, The Yale Law Journal; April 1, 2003; Katyal, Neal Kumar
Evaluating Conspiracy: Narrative, Argument, and Ideology in Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech, Argumentation and Advocacy; September 22, 2005; Pfau, Michael William
Federal Criminal Conspiracy, American Criminal Law Review; April 1, 2006; Siegel, Richard
Conspiracy, Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity; January 1, 2005
Drug Conspiracies, The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin; June 1, 1999; Hendrie, Edward M.
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