Deadrat wrote:
> "Reality_Check©" wrote in
>> "Bo Raxo" wrote in message
>>> "Reality_Check©" wrote in message
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Did Federal Drug Laws not apply to the Felonies in question?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not established they were felonies,
>>
>> Do tell how one can conspire to purchase/possess cocaine
>> without committing a felony.
>
> One can't. But it's easy to purchase and possess cocaine without
> conspiring with anyone to do so.
>
>>> and it is possible federal charges didn't apply.
>>
>> Please do tell how one can purchase, possess and/or use cocaine
>> in the U$A without violating Federal Felony laws.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> Did David Patterson state he conspired, purchased, obtained and
>>>> used cocaine in New York, or is that another one of Larry's classic
>>>> strawmen ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, Patterson stated he used.
>>
>> So where and how did he obtain the cocaine he used?
>
> He'll have to tell us. But if you go looking for the drugs on your
> own,
And just "find" them laying on the ground?
> or you've got friends who don't mind sharing,
Distribution.
> you don't have to conspire to obtain said drugs.
So you stole the drugs from your friends?
That's likely to be another felony in many jurisdictions.
>
>>> I've had people offer me drugs - for free -
>>
>> Conspiracy to Distribute/Possess.
>>
>>> at parties and in nightclubs and bars. ( When you turn 'em down
>>> they think you must be a cop. ) No purchase,
>>
>> Irrelevant, it's still distribution.
>
> On the part of the giver, perhaps.
Well then, all those 1000s of people convicted and/or imprisoned
for conspiracy to distribute, who were merely the receivers of,
or other peripheral players to the distribution of drugs will be
happy you've figured out a legal loophole to get
them freed.
>
>>> no conspiracy,
>>
>> Yes conspiracy if you accepted the drugs, or agreed and took an
>> "overt step" toward possessing/accepting the drugs.
>
> Conspiracy takes conspirators, fellow planners. An overt step to
> commit a crime may be taken alone.
So from whom are you obtaining the drugs without their agreement?
Please tell us you aren't so pig-ignorant to think that ALL the
conspirators of a crime must take an overt act in furtherance
of the crime for the overall criminal conspiracy to become choate.
>
>>> people offer drugs all the time for all kinds of reasons.
>>
>> And you're a clueless nitwit if you think your acceptance of
>> those drugs wouldn't constitute a crime, State and/or Federal.
>
> No one says it isn't a crime, just that it needn't be conspiracy.
So tell us then how you would obtain cocaine from your supplier
without conspiring with them, or committing another crime such as
theft, stupid rat.
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