Francis Schaeffer Cox v. United States
JusticiabilityDoctri
1. Whether a contingent conspiracy may be based on a condition outside the conspirators' control that they subjectively believed was likely to occur, even if the condition was not just unlikely but highly unlikely to ever occur?
2. Whether federal jurisdiction exists for a conspiracy to murder federal employees where "the object of the intended attack [was] not identified with sufficient specificity so as to give rise to the conclusion that had the attack been carried out the victim would have been a federal [employee]," thereby falling short of the jurisdictional test articulated in Feola v. United States, 420 U.S. 671, 695–96 (1975)?
Whether a contingent conspiracy may be based on a condition outside the conspirators' control that they subjectively believed was likely to occur, even if the condition was not just unlikely but highly unlikely to ever occur?