Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Re: How does a case of ''conspiracy to commit xyz'' get prosecuted?

Penal Code Sec. 184 may be helpful to you.

"No agreement amounts to a conspiracy, unless some act, beside such agreement, be done within this state to effect the object thereof, by one or more of the parties to such agreement and the trial of cases of conspiracy may be had in any county in which any such act be done."

A person who speaks in code language can be tried for conspiracy provided he also performs some act in furtherance of the conspiracy. He certainly doesn't gain any protection from prosecution by speaking in code.

In fact, speaking in code may make it easier to establish a conspiracy because it can show a common scheme or purpose between two or more individuals.

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