State v. La Forge’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The problem arises in a number of contexts ... Second: Where the person with whom the defendant conspired secretly intended not to go through with the plan. In these cases it is generally held that neither party can be convicted because there was no "agreement" between two persons. Under the unilateral approach to the (Code), the culpable party's agreement was feigned. He has conspired, within the meaning of the definition, in the belief that the other party was with him; apart from the issue of entrapment often presented in such cases, his culpability is not decreased by the other's secret intention. True enough, the project's chances of success have not been increased by the agreement . .. But the major basis of the conspiratorial liability — the unequivocal evidence of a firm purpose to commit a crime — remains the same.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 193 N.J. Super. 133 - State v. Conway