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Criminal Conspiracy

By Baker Associates

Certain types of criminal conduct, like running large-scale drug rings and knocking off mega-casinos Ocean?s Eleven-style, involve the cooperation of multiple individuals in order to be accomplished successfully. Tennessee recognizes that such offenses often require the cooperation of many actors and that some of those actors will never actually engage in the conduct, such as theft, that is sought to be punished by the statute. For example, one man may create an alarm-stifling device that another man uses to rob a bank. If it weren?t for the criminal conspiracy statute, the device-maker may evade punishment altogether. Criminal conspiracy is defined in T.C.A. § 39-12-103(a) as when ?two (2) or more people, each having the culpable mental state required for the offense that is the object of the conspiracy, and each acting for the purpose of promoting or facilitating commission of an offense, agree that one (1) or more of them will engage in conduct that constitutes the offense...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).