Commonwealth v. Cerveny

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the acquittal of one coconspirator in a separate trial does not preclude the subsequent conviction of the other coconspirator
• stating that no overt act is necessary for a conspiracy conviction
• finding of not guilty can result from factors having nothing to do with defendant’s actual guilt, including “an exclusionary rule of evidence, inadequate investigation or proof, the composition of the jury, or the defendant’s own insanity”
• \A finding of not guilty at a criminal trial can result from any number of factors having nothing to do with the defendant's actual guilt\
• separate prosecution for conspiracy not barred by acquittal of sole coconspirator
• looks at time, place, objective, and relationship between conspiracies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).