California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Hunt, H037380, H038256 (Cal. App. 2014):
"A conspiracy is shown by 'evidence of an agreement between two or more persons with the specific intent to agree to commit a public offense and with the further specific intent to commit such offense, which agreement is followed by an overt act committed by one or more of the parties for the purpose of furthering the object of the agreement.' [Citation.]" (People v. Longines (1995) 34 Cal.App.4th 621, 625-626 (Longines).) " 'Evidence is sufficient to prove a conspiracy to commit a crime "if it supports an inference that the parties positively or tacitly came to a mutual understanding to commit a crime. [Citation.] The existence of a conspiracy may be inferred from the
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