Looking for the article I read where it said this man was convicted of just that.
Anyone ever heard of this?
Conspiring to commit a crime is generally illegal, period. Doesn’t matter if you use telephone, e-mail, snail mail pony express, or carrier pigeon. A medium-specific crime… well, I suppose one [bold]could[/bold] exist.
Dammit, I’ll get the code right one of these days.
I agree with JString. I would only add that there are medium-specif offences, such as wire fraud and mail fraud. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US federal government didn’t have an offence of conspiracy by telephone, etc., because inter-state commerce is often the “hook” the Congress uses to allow it to create a federal crime. Melin, DSYoungEsq - any thoughts?
and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe
You have to leave a space between the text and the [bold] bracket [/bold] around the control character (quote/italics/bold).
FixedBack
“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”~~*G.K.Chesterton *
Dammit! :o That should’ve been:
You have to leave a space between the text and the ** bracket ** around the control character (quote/italics/bold).
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- The blind leading the blind. *
Totally off-topic, but relating to the hijack:
I’ve never put a space between the bracket and the text. UBB code is explained just to the left of your reply box… 
“…being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage.”
Unhajacking the thread, but still being a smartass.
If a man was convicted of breaking a law, it does stand to reason that the law exists.
Of course that only answers the question in the topic header.
To the question in the body, Yes. I have heard it is illegal to use the telephone to further a criminal activity.