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Re:Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. The DEA Put... by eropple on Sunday October 12, 2014 @02:05AM (#8444550)
Conspiring to smuggle drugs is illegal, however. And contributing to the commission of a crime is conspiracy.

The law is not code. It is interpreted. It's not some shocking interpretation to say that, when you find yourself looking for circumlocutions and code words to avoid directly saying the word "drugs", you know you're helping drug smugglers smuggle drugs. Which is a crime. And he got rung up for it.

(Which is not to say that the sentence even remotely fits the crime, but to say no crime was committed is disingenuous.)

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Re:Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. The DEA Put... by valar_m on Sunday October 12, 2014 @02:59AM (#8444647)
No, it is a code. It is literally called the United States Code. Criminal laws are laid out in Title 18 of the United States Code.

And contributing to the commission of a crime is conspiracy.

No, this is incorrect. That is not the legal requirement to obtain a conviction for conspiracy. Every single adult in the United States would probably be at risk of criminal liability if it were.

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