El Pueblo De Puerto Rico v. Candelario Rivera, Guarionex

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “a substantive crime and a conspiracy to commit that crime are not the ‘same offense’ for double jeopardy purposes”
• concluding that “a substantive crime and a conspiracy to commit that crime are not the ‘same offense’ for double jeopardy purposes”
• holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar successive prosecutions for a conspiracy and a substantive offense alleged as an overt act of the conspiracy
• recognizing that “a substantive crime and a conspiracy to commit that crime are not the ‘same offence’ for double jeopardy purposes”
• concluding that a substantive crime and a conspiracy to commit that crime are separate offenses for double jeopardy purposes
• holding that “the agreement to do the act is distinct from the act itself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).