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The Movement Toward Statute-Based Conspiracy Law In The United Kingdom And The United States, Kenneth A. David
The Movement Toward Statute-Based Conspiracy Law In The United Kingdom And The United States, Kenneth A. David
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
A single criminal charge of conspiracy, because it simultaneously involves an inchoate as well as a substantive offense, is characterized by a duality that for years has created confusion and uncertainty as to the proper prosecution and punishment for the crime. The author of this Note places responsibility for this confusion primarily on the judges whose rulings have produced a highly incoherent body of common law and secondarily on the complacent legislatures that have allowed judicial interpretation to shape conspiracy law in a haphazard manner.
The Note compares the approaches to conspiracy law taken by the United Kingdom and the …