United States v. Thomas Meacham, Joseph Ward, Edward William Gilroy, Bobby Gene Hayes and Donald L. Metsger

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• holding that the indictment was jurisdictionally defective because it had charged “a nonoffense”
• holding that “conspiracy to attempt” is not offense under drug conspiracy statutes and noting that “it would be the height of absurdity to conspire to commit an attempt, an inchoate offense, and simultaneously conspire to fail at the effort”
• “It is axiomatic that the elements alleged must amount to an offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).