Friday, August 25, 2006

Criminal conspiracy.

Title 9A Washington criminal code
RCW 9A.28.040
Criminal conspiracy.

(1) A person is guilty of criminal conspiracy when, with intent that conduct constituting a crime be performed, he or she agrees with one or more persons to engage in or cause the performance of such conduct, and any one of them takes a substantial step in pursuance of such agreement.
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(3) Criminal conspiracy is a:
(a) Class A felony when an object of the conspiratorial agreement is murder in the first degree





conspiracy

an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.

Law. an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act.