California · Penal Code

PEN §184: No agreement amounts to a conspiracy, unless some act, beside such agreement, be done within this state to effect the object thereof, by one or more of the parties to such agreement and the trial of c

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Conspiracy requires an agreement plus at least one act within the state to further the conspiracy's goal, performed by one or more parties to the agreement.

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No agreement amounts to a conspiracy, unless some act, beside such agreement, be done within this state to effect the object thereof, by one or more of the parties to such agreement and the trial of cases of conspiracy may be had in any county in which any such act be done.

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