Sentence examples for conspiracy statute from inspiring English sources

The general federal conspiracy statute caps the potential prison sentence at five years.

The general federal conspiracy statute requires proof of an overt act.

It demonstrates that Congress codified a baseline overt act requirement in the general conspiracy statute.

Provision prohibiting conspiracy was deleted as adequately covered by the general conspiracy statute, section 371 of this title.

In contrast to the single conspiracy described in that case in separate counts, all charged under the general conspiracy statute, § 37, Criminal Code, 35 Stat.

It relied, for instance, on a Civil War-era seditious conspiracy statute that made it a crime to plot to levy war on the United States.

Some conspiracy statutes assign the same punishment for conspiracy as for the target offense.

At that time unions and unionists were regularly prosecuted under various restraint-of-trade and conspiracy statutes in both Britain and the United States.

Money laundering, tax, fraud and conspiracy statutes all lend themselves to aggressive use against terrorist organizations, their front groups and supporters.

Previous aiding-and-abetting and conspiracy statutes required proof of intent to back wrongful conduct, while the material-support law requires only proof of support for designated organizations.

Califano's war on drugs has been the single largest contributor to what Roberts calls the erosion of historic protections with its use of forfeitures, conspiracy statutes and novel theories of the law invented by prosecutors.