74 So. 3d 563 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “[o]nly where ... the defendant’s involvement in the enterprise appears to be minimal at best, evincing no prearrange-ments with the other defendants, or where ... the defendant has been acquitted of an accompanying drug trafficking charge, thereby discrediting much, if not all of the evidence against the defendant, have Florida courts been inclined to reverse such conspiracy convictions. Indeed, the typical drug trafficking transaction involving a series of clandestine meetings between several defendants and an undercover police officer which eventually leads to a sale or purchase of illegal drugs ... presents the classic example of a criminal conspiracy; by definition, such a scenario inferentially establishes, as a general rule, a prior agreement among the defendants to effect a sale or purchase of illegal drugs, else such a sale or purchase with its complicated arrangements would never have taken place.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 86 So. 3d 1209 - Dieujuste v. State

2. “A conspiracy exists where there is an express or implied agreement between two or more persons to commit a criminal offense and an intention to commit the offense. Schlicher v. State, 13 So.3d 515, 517 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009). The fact-finder may infer the agreement from the circumstances; direct proof is not necessary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 155 So. 3d 390 - Perry v. State