United States v. Jimenez Recio

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 2003-01-21

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*272 Justice Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court. We here consider the validity of a Ninth Circuit rule that a conspiracy ends automatically when the object of the conspiracy becomes impossible to achieve — when, for example, the Government frustrates a drug conspiracy’s objective by seizing the drugs that its members have agreed to distribute. In o…

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