My understanding is that conspiracy charges require three persons to be valid - no?
If you're going solo and lie to a police, if they find out they might want to dump all the lil' petty charges they can apply on you, just to be spiteful, but I don't know if "conspiracy to ____" (for anything) would be one of those charges.
The obvious defense would be, "Your Honor, with whom am I to have conspired?"
Just had two folks up here in the county I live in got popped for conspiracy to commit identity theft.
In the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law"]criminal law[/ame], a
conspiracy is an agreement between [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_person"]natural persons[/ame] to break the law at some time in the future, and, in some cases, with at least one overt act in furtherance of that agreement. There is no limit on the number participating in the conspiracy and, in most countries, no requirement that any steps have been taken to put the plan into effect (compare [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempt"]attempts[/ame] which require proximity to the full offence). For the purposes of [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrence"]concurrence[/ame], the
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actus_reus"]actus reus[/ame] is a continuing one and parties may join "the plot" later and incur joint liability and conspiracy can be charged where the co-conspirators have been acquitted and/or cannot be traced. Finally, [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repentance"]repentance[/ame] by one or more parties does not affect liability but may reduce their
sentence. cite: Wikipedia
So, ur riding w/John Doe and he knows ur gonna lay a fake name (and in court let's keep it real they can PROVE anything they want and I have 5 years of reality there) then you have BOTH conspired to enter into a collusion to obstruct justice on federal property (yup, better check what ultimate or pendant jurisdiction the trax are).
The only reason I belabor this thread is that when you get leading ?'s like this it's paramount to put ALL the info out there; no matter how far flung it might be. Otherwise, you're gonna get some fucking asshole kid who says, "Well, your Honor, I was 'instructed' on StP that this was how to do it and so I did." Any guesses what the next steps taken are?