but to have a conspiracy you have to commit one overt act... did you miss the whole point of my post?
watch the TV shows where they nail some poor bastard for hiring a hit man- until he hands over the money they don’t arrest him.
they give him every opportunity to back out- up to that point.
Doesn’t have to be money.
From the article the girl offered to have sex with the ‘boy’.
That could easily be considered ‘payment’ for the ‘hit’.
But, not all states consider conspiracy in and of itself as a crime. Most state and Federal law states that the persons involved need to exchange ‘goods or services’(money also) first before it reaches ‘criminal conspiracy’
But some states still hold that ‘conspiracy’ is still a crime, whether or not an ‘agreement’ has been tenured.
Not sure if the state she lives in does or not.
A lawyer once told me that TV law shows have as much to do with the law as Fred Flintstone has to do with history.
It’s not that they have to commit an overt act, it’s that the police have to have proof of the crime. But this woman has written records: proof of the crime.