United States v. Richard Delvecchio and Angelo Amen

How courts have described this case

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• “[EJvidence of a verbal agreement alone, without more, is insufficient as a matter of law to support an attempt conviction.”
• no evidence that appellants “had either acquired or attempted to acquire the almost one million dollars necessary to complete the purchase”
• “[E]vidence of a verbal agreement alone, without more, is insufficient as a matter of law to support an attempt conviction.”
• “Although the verbal formula for what constitutes a substantial step is clear, courts have not always found it easy to decide whether a defendant’s conduct has crossed over the line from ‘preparation’ to ‘attempt.’”
• where the defendants’ plan to possess heroin had advanced only to the stage of meeting with suppliers to work out the deal’s terms, evidence of a verbal agreement alone was not sufficient to support an attempt conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).