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UNITED STATES v. JIMENEZ RECIO

No. 01-1184.

537 U.S. 270 (2003)

123 S.Ct. 819

154 L.Ed.2d 744

UNITED STATES v. JIMENEZ RECIO ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 21, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Olson, Assistant Attorney General Chertoff, James A. Feldman, and Jonathan L. Marcus.

M. Karl Shurtliff argued the cause for respondents and filed a brief for respondent Jimenez Recio. Thomas A. Sullivan filed a brief for respondent Lopez-Meza.*

JUSTICE BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court.

We here consider the validity of a Ninth Circuit rule that a conspiracy ends automatically when the object of the conspiracy becomes impossible to achieve—when, for example, the Government frustrates a drug conspiracy's objective by seizing the drugs that its members have agreed to distribute. In our view, conspiracy law does not contain any such "automatic termination...

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