CRM/LAW C144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mail And Wire Fraud, Extortion, Arson
7 Jun 2017
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Prosecution unsuccessfully tried to use a spoken wheel theory, a bunch of separate conspiracies tied into one. The defendant made a referral to an abortionist: trying to tie in this person as a co-conspirator to all the other abortions that took place. In this case, the court allowed the prosecution to tie all the rings together: it was a spoken wheel conspiracy. A lot of people criticized this as an overreach: just because the defendant referred one person to the abortionist doesn"t mean that she had knowledge of or conspired for all the other abortions that took place. A was in agreement with b was in agreement with c: moonshiner, bootlegger, tavern owner. The court allowed the chain of conspiracy: chain of conspiracy links in a and c even if a doesn"t know c personally, he knows that c must exist. Every player know that the other players must exist.
