People v. Anderson

I agree with my colleague that the Court of Appeals erred reversibly in this case when it set aside the defendant’s conviction for conspiracy to commit murder. I am constrained to write separately, however, because I believe there is a different and more correct rationale for the decision we reach on both points to which my colleague has written.

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There can be no question that Michigan is a "no one-man conspiracy” state. Our conspiracy statute is a bilateral conspiracy statute which requires proof of an agreement between two or more persons. It is not, as the people contend, a unilateral…