Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Logic demands that the agreement that constitutes the conspiracy must be an agreement to commit the same criminal offense. In a buy-sell transaction, that agreement usually does not exist because the buyer and seller each intend to commit a different criminal offense. As a result, there is no criminal conspiracy to pursue a common goal. Such is the case here, where [the buyer] and [the seller] were on opposite sides of the drug transactions. Accordingly, there was no evidence of an express or implied agreement between [the buyer] and [the seller] to commit the common criminal offense of purchase of cocaine.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hampton v. State

2. “As in Schlicher , the evidence here failed to demonstrate any agreement or concurrent intent between the defendant and Adams to join in the same act of selling, purchasing, delivering, or possessing a particular item of cocaine. Rather, the evidence demonstrated that the defendant intended to possess and then to sell and deliver the cocaine, and Adams intended to purchase and then possess the cocaine.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hampton v. State

3. “Here, the State’s evidence was insufficient to establish conspiracy because it did not show an agreement between the defendant and any person to commit the same act of selling, purchasing, delivering, or possessing cocaine. Instead, the evidence simply established the planning and execution of a buy-sell transaction between the defendant and Adams.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hampton v. State