Lord Judge ruled: "The respective offences of conspiracy against Majeed and cheating against Westfield were properly prosecuted".
I can't rule out the possibility of conspiracy in these murders -- after all, Lincoln's death was a conspiracy -- but can't resolve the question either way.
But there was the odd idiot telling people to learn about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion – a nonsense book about a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world, beloved of conspiracy theorists even though it was debunked in 1921.
The Medici family returned to rule Florence, and Machiavelli, suspected of conspiracy, was imprisoned, tortured, and sent into exile in 1513 to his father's small property in San Casciano, just south of Florence.
What he meant was that the court should rule definitively on the validity of conspiracy as a military commission charge, rather than deciding Mr. Bahlul's case on potentially available procedural grounds that are specific to him but wouldn't address the cloud now looming over the pending trials of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the four others accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks.
But it is the premise of conspiracy as a rule, central to all of Piglia's work, that feels most prophetic.
It has already been revealed that he and the younger co-pilot did not specifically ask to fly together on this particular flight, so that sort of conspiracy has been ruled out.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin ruled 5 to 4 against reinstating a count of conspiracy to violate the state's election code.
Large numbers of Americans today believe that the very international institutions the country helped create to promote a liberal, rule-bound world order are actually some sort of conspiracy by foreigners to undermine or seize control of America.
Ian Edmondson, former news editor accused of conspiracy to hack phones, was ruled to be no longer fit to to be part of the trial.
