Does conspiracy law make drug cases easier to prove?
A conspiracy? Yes. What we need to establish is that people basically are involved in an agreement to violate the federal narcotics laws. Do you need evidence of drugs for a conspiracy charge? No. … Some are known as wet and some are known as dry conspiracies. A wet conspiracy is where you actually have powder on the table if you will, or whatever the drug is. [In] a dry conspiracy … basically individuals are arrested or we gather information [to] show that person X, person Y, person Z were moving quantities of cocaine during a set period. … Dry conspiracy means only oral testimony? Generally a dry conspiracy, the way I use the term anyway, means that there were no drugs actually recovered. So you’d be relying on cooperating defendants, potentially informants. There’s also a lot of grand jury work involved in terms of pulling records, different phone numbers, bank records and that sort of thing. So there’s any number of ways that the evidence can be gathered. Doesn’t this create
