United States v. Ralph Cianchetti, Charles Hedges and Molly Schau

How courts have described this case

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• reversing conviction for conspiracy to violate drug law because \there was no fixed agreement to cooperate\ and defendant \did noting to further the success of the enterprise\
• reversing conviction for conspiracy to violate drug law because “there was no fixed agreement to cooperate” and defendant “did noting to further the success of the enterprise”
• co-conspirator must make an “affirmative attempt” to further the purposes of the conspiracy
• co-conspirator must make an “affirmative attempt” to further the purposes of the conspiracy
• failure to give accomplice instruction was not a cause for reversal where trial judge gave usual instruction as to bias of witnesses, and defense counsel made references to inconsistencies in testimony of witnesses in both closing argument and motions to the court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).