BUT, is conversation about committing an illegal act not “conspiracy”?
“Conspiracy” laws are a two edged sword. A sword which cuts the citizen on the fore and back stroke, I might add.
When we allow government to criminalize thoughts, thoughts or words - not acts!, we have stepped onto the slippery slope to totalitarian government.
Blackstone was right. It is better to allow ten guilty to go free than jail one innocent man. The guilty will continue to offend and will eventually be caught, but if the innocent are jailed then confidence in the justness of government is diminished.
I suggest that the weakening of citizen confidence/support of the Constitution and the Republic is the goal of many who are employed as lawyers, judges, ad nauseam.
These traitors are followers of the Critical Theory. Those intellectual trash believed that only by constantly carping a critical analysis of every issue, could the Americans be convinced to abandon their beliefs.
Such was the power of traditional American beliefs that unless the Americans could be convinced to abandon them, communism could never have “its day in the sun”.
Perhaps, this explains the constant carping, griping, denigration, etc coming from the Lamestream Media.
Now, you say he may have been in a conspiracy anonymously with the cop. That toe tapping and hand waving could be a conspiracy, but against who or what?
In my mind, the drive by media placed him in double jeopardy and tried and sentenced him again. He had no counsel in this court of public opinion which is not constrained by the rules of evidence. I know from my own experience that they can and do stage these assassinations by media when they don't have the facts on their side. They make it all up. Richard Jewell got some damages paid, but that is very, very unusual.
Where did this unrelenting smear campaign really come from, three months after the fact. Larry Flynt? CREW? Unlike the Mark Foley assassination, we don't know who ginned this up.