U.S. v. Recio, No. 01-1184 (U.S. Supreme Court) (537 U.S. 270; 123 S.Ct. 819) (January 21, 2003) (Justice Breyer)
In this case, the Supreme Court addressed a rule, unique to the Ninth Circuit, that a conspiracy ends automatically when the object of the conspiracy becomes impossible to achieve – such as when, for example, the Government intervenes and frustrates a drug conspiracy's objective by seizing the drugs that its ...
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