Sentence examples for crime of conspiracy from inspiring English sources

But the crime of conspiracy to obstruct justice does not require a finding that the underlying crime was carried out.

Under United States federal law, members of a conspiracy may be guilty not only of the crime of conspiracy itself but also of other unknown crimes committed by other members of the conspiracy in support of it.

While this remains the law in many American jurisdictions, some states have followed the Model Penal Code in limiting the crime of conspiracy to combinations of persons with the purpose of committing acts that are themselves crimes.

Prof. Detlev Vagts of the Harvard University Law School, an authority on the laws of war, said the conspiracy charge appeared to be an effort to fashion a new military offense along the lines of the civilian crime of conspiracy.

A statement from the Versailles prosecutor said the alleged crime of conspiracy to blackmail and participating in a criminal group for which he was being investigated could carry a prison sentence of at least five years.

Twenty protesters were eventually convicted for the minor crime of conspiracy to commit trespass after they admitted they had planned to occupy the plant for a week, thereby preventing the emission of 150,000 tonnes of carbon.

There are discussions about expanding the crimes of conspiracy, useful in prosecuting mobsters here and in other countries, to international terror investigations.

The argument came as military prosecutors pressed ahead with efforts to try Mr. Hamdan for what they say are the war crimes of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.

He was released after he pleaded guilty in 2010 to war crimes charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.

"He's the last man you'd imagine being part of this kind of crime conspiracy," said Danelle Stone, 42, who lived next door to Mr. Wells on a shady block of single-family homes in Millcreek, a suburb west of Erie.

Mr. Barnes, 55, pleaded guilty in September to using a destructive device during a crime of violence and conspiracy to commit bank robbery.