Overt Act Research Paper

Rhett, stating the overt act’s definition in the intro sentence of your discussion board really helped clarify your post and made for a great introduction. I found it very interesting when you mentioned, “This act does not need to be illegal. It just has to guide one or two people towards committing an act.” When doing the research to complete my discussion board I did not realize that the act did not have to be illegal. I also mentioned the Whitefield V. United States case for the case that might not be required for conviction of conspiracy. Cornell University Law School mentions, “An overt act is a statutory requirement, not a constitutional one” (Conspiracy, n.d.). Therefore, the illegal act in Whitfield v. United States was the conspiracy’s