Legally, at least 12 people must be involved for a conspiracy to exist, each person has a legal title or term, I know for a fact, ""mastermind" is one of those terms, but what are the rest? are there variations that use more people? in legal terms how is a conspiracy defined?
2007-07-30 06:55:30 · 10 answers · asked by MAX POWER 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Well, your premise is false, there's no law that says you need 12 people for a conspiracy, and there's no legal name for any of them. Where the heck did you get that from?
In fact, you only need two (or more, obviously), and all (or both) of them would be called co-conspirators. There doesn't even need to be a mastermind, although there can be -- think about it, two people can have the same criminal idea and both can "mastermind" it, it would still be a conspiracy.
2007-07-30 07:07:12 · answer #1 · answered by Hillary 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A conspiracy can be carried out by just one person, and the members of a conspiracy are called conspirators. Co-conspirators is not a word, despite the fact it is all over TV and used in court often.
2007-07-30 07:05:07 · answer #2 · answered by Pfo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Conspiracy is two or more people with a common criminal purpose, and at least one overt act in furtherance of the crime.
It is not a conspiracy to sit around and talk about a hypothetical future kidnapping, but if one of the people you talked with goes out and buys some rope, you're part of the conspiracy.
2007-07-30 07:10:38 · answer #3 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Conspiracy, in common usage, is the act of working in secret to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations. Etymologically, the term comes from Latin con- "with, together", and spirare "to breathe".
2007-07-30 07:08:22 · answer #4 · answered by Katyana 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never seen a definition that says you need 12 people for a conspiracy.
2007-07-30 06:58:06 · answer #5 · answered by wizjp 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Co-conspirators.
2007-07-30 06:59:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The participants are "conspirators"
2007-07-30 06:58:42 · answer #7 · answered by ItsJustMe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the rest are simoly called
fellow republicans
2007-07-30 06:59:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the bush administration.
2007-07-30 06:58:50 · answer #9 · answered by kajun 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
could they be conspirators????
2007-07-30 06:58:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋