United States v. Shabani
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United States v. Shabani (1994) was a trial before the US Supreme Court. The court ruled: "...Congress intended to adopt the common law definition of conspiracy, which does not make the doing of any act other than the act of conspiring a condition of liability..." This ruling indicated that conspiracy alone can be criminal.
- See also: actus reus
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "United_States_v._Shabani" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Shabani, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
