...I always thought conspiracy involved more than one person.
Technically it may involve more than one person, but practically they can always find a co-conspirator. It is never an obstacle to a prosecution. Conspiracy is simply what they call the crime when they don't have physical evidence or when nothing actually happened.
they don't put people to death for attempted murder, do they? that seems a little harsh to me.
They sentence people for extremely long periods of time (life) for conspiracy to commit crimes. Conspiracy to sell drugs, for example, when the conspirators had no drugs and certainly didn't manage to sell any.
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Technically it may involve more than one person, but practically they can always find a co-conspirator. It is never an obstacle to a prosecution. Conspiracy is simply what they call the crime when they don't have physical evidence or when nothing actually happened.
they don't put people to death for attempted murder, do they? that seems a little harsh to me. They sentence people for extremely long periods of time (life) for conspiracy to commit crimes. Conspiracy to sell drugs, for example, when the conspirators had no drugs and certainly didn't manage to sell any.