United States v. William Rose and Robert Peterson

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting defendants’ argument that conspiracy to transport stolen goods in interstate commerce could not exist unless the goods had actually been stolen
• fact that defendants’ “plan was doomed because they unwittingly chose as their instrumentalities agents of the government is irrelevant to the existence of the conspiracy”
• defendants, who unwittingly engaged government agents to steal and transport goods, guilty of conspiracy to transport in interstate commerce goods valued at $5,000 or more and known to be stolen
• § 371 conspiracy to transport stolen goods existed despite fact goods not stolen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).