Conspiracy Self-Quiz
Lyle asks Eric if Eric will
help him kill his parents. Eric agrees to help Lyle, although he has no
intention of doing so. Eric helps Lyle plan the crime, all the time planning
on turning Eric into the police before the actual commission of the crimes.
On the day the murders are to take place, Eric makes an anonymous phone
call to the police tipping them off as to what is going to happen. The
police arrest Lyle and Eric and charge them both with conspiracy to commit
murder. Eric will probably be:
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Sydney and Vaughn are best
friends. One night, Vaughn is arrested and charged with robbing a bank.
Although there is no obvious evidence that Sydney was in on the robbery,
she is charged with conspiracy to commit the robbery. In order to maximize
their chances of convicting Sydney, the prosecution must prove that:
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Lyle asks Eric if Eric will
help him kill his parents. Eric agrees to help Lyle, although, he only
enters into the agreement so that he can turn Lyle in and have Lyle put
in prison. Eric helps Lyle plan the crime, all the time planning on turning
Eric into the police before the actual commission of the crimes. On the
day the murders are to take place, Eric makes an anonymous phone call
to the police tipping them off as to what is going to happen. The police
arrest Lyle and Eric and charge them both with conspiracy to commit murder.
Lyle will probably be:
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Danny and Scott conspire
to rob a branch of Fleet Bank of Boston. They successfully pull the robbery
off and flee to their friend Ronnie's summer house to hide out. Danny
and Scott are caught, charged and convicted of robbery and conspiracy
to commit robbery. The prosecution cannot prove that there was any explicit
agreement between Scott and Danny and Ronnie. However, Ronnie can still
be convicted of conspiracy if the prosecution can show that:
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Danny and Scott conspire
to rob a branch of the Fleet Bank of Boston, launder the money and then
use the money to make illegal stock purchases. If they are caught, they
can be convicted of three separate conspiracies for the robbery, the money
laundering scheme and the plan to make illegal stock purchases:
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In a chain and link conspiracy
involving ten different people, the prosecution will have to prove ___
conspiracies in order to convict each co-conspirator:
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In a wheel and spoke conspiracy
involving ten different people, the prosecution will have to prove ___
conspiracies in order to convict each co-conspirator:
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Danny and Scott agree to
jointly rob a branch of the Fleet Bank of Boston. They carefully plan
the robbery and successfully carry out the plan. They are eventually caught
and brought to trial. At common law, they can be convicted for:
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Danny and Scott agree to
jointly rob a branch of the Fleet Bank of Boston. They carefully plan
the robbery and successfully carry out the plan. They are eventually caught
and brought to trial. If they are tried in a jurisdiction that had adopted
the Model Penal Code, they can be convicted for:
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Danny, Scott, Zach, Ronnie
and Steven conspire to rob a branch of the Fleet Bank of Boston. They
are caught before they can actually rob the bank, charged with conspiracy
to commit robbery and tried in a jurisdiction that follows the common
law. The prosecution’s cases against Scott, Zach, Ronnie and Steven
are weak and they are all acquitted. However, the prosecution has very
strong evidence showing that Danny agreed to help commit the robbery.
Therefore, Danny can be convicted even though his co-conspirators have
been acquitted.
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Danny, Scott, Zach, Ronnie
and Steven conspire to rob a branch of the Fleet Bank of Boston. The police
are tipped off before they can actually rob the bank. Danny is caught
but everybody manages to escape and go into hiding. Danny is charged with
conspiracy to commit robbery and tried in a jurisdiction that follows
the common law. The prosecution has very strong evidence showing that
Danny agreed to help commit the robbery. Therefore, Danny can be convicted
even though his co-conspirators have not been caught and charged.
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Danny, Scott, Zach, Ronnie
and Steven conspire to rob a branch of the Fleet Bank of Boston. They
are caught before they can actually rob the bank, charged with conspiracy
to commit robbery and tried in a jurisdiction that has adopted the Model
Penal Code. The prosecution’s cases against Scott, Zach, Ronnie
and Steven are weak and they are all acquitted. However, the prosecution
has very strong evidence showing that Danny agreed to help commit the
robbery. Therefore, Danny can be convicted even though his co-conspirators
have been acquitted:
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Danny, Scott, Zach, Ronnie
and Steven conspire to steal one hundred bars of solid gold belonging
to the United States Treasury from a branch of the Fleet Bank of Boston.
What they do not know is that all of the U.S. Treasury's gold is kept
at Fort Knox and therefore, there is no gold in the Fleet Bank of
Boston's vault. They are caught before they can actually rob the bank
and are charged with conspiracy to commit Federal Grand Larceny. The
defendants argue that they should not be convicted of the conspiracy
because, since there was no gold at the bank, it was impossible to
commit the crime they were trying to commit. This impossibility argument
is a valid defense and they will be acquitted:
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Danny, Scott, Zach, Ronnie
and Steven conspire to steal one hundred bars of solid gold belonging
to the United States Treasury from a branch Fort Knox. They each play
a role in planning the robbery. The morning of the robbery, Danny has
a change of heart and tells his co-conspirators that he doesn't want to
go through with the crime. The others go on without Danny and they successfully
rob the bank. They are eventually caught and everybody, including Danny,
is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery. The trials take place in
a jurisdiction that has adopted the Model Penal Core. If Danny argues
that he withdrew from the conspiracy and should therefore be acquitted,
he will probably be:
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Danny, Scott, Zach, Ronnie
and Steven conspire to steal one hundred bars of solid gold belonging
to the United States Treasury from a branch Fort Knox. They successfully
break into the bank and steal the gold. As per the plan, each co-conspirator
leaves out of a different exit. While he is leaving the bank, Steven is
stopped by a security guard. Steven beats the guard up and runs out of
the bank. He then car-jacks a person and drives the car toward the meeting
point that everybody is supposed to meet at. While driving the car, Steven
notices some bank statements belonging to the car owner. Steven stops
at the bank and withdraws all of the money in the car owner's account.
They are eventually caught and arrested. Along with the bank robbery,
Steven is charged with assaulting the police officer, stealing the car
and stealing the car owner's money. Danny, Scott Zach and Ronnie can all
be charged with:
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Danny, Scott, Zach, Ronnie
and Steven conspire to steal one hundred bars of solid gold belonging
to the United States Treasury from a branch Fort Knox. The plan calls
for them to rob the bank, meet at Ronnie's summer house and divide up
the gold. They successfully break into the bank and steal the gold. As
per the plan, they meet at the house and divide up the gold. After everybody
leaves Ronnie's house, Steven car-jacks someone and drives the car toward
the boarder where he has someone willing to buy the gold. While driving
the car, Steven is arrested. He is charged with robbing the bank and stealing
the car. Danny, Scott, Zach and Ronnie can all be charged with:
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