My mate is going to court she is being charged with conspiract or thefr and she doesn't know what it means and hw long prison sentence would you get if you found guilty?
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it means 'to plot to do something bad or illegal.'
does she have a public defender? demand one right off the bat and tell her not to say a word in defense of herself about their charges until she consults with her lawyer. I don't know how they are applying the word in her case, but the dictionary defines the word as meaning the following:
con·spir·a·cy (k…n-spîr“…-s) n., pl. con·spir·a·cies. 1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. 2. A group of conspirators. 3. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action. 4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas. [Middle English conspiracie, from Anglo-Norman conspiracie, probably alteration of Old French conspiration, from Latin c½nspºr³ti½, c½nspºr³ti½n-, from c½nspºr³tus, past participle of c½nspºr³re, to conspire. See CONSPIRE.]
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SYNONYMS: conspiracy, plot, machination, collusion, intrigue, cabal. Each of these nouns denotes a secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end. Conspiracy refers to such a plan by a group intent usually on a treacherous purpose: Several generals formed a conspiracy to overthrow the government. Plot stresses sinister means and motives but may be small or large in number of participants and scope: Several financiers joined the plot to take over the profitable company. Machination, usually in the plural, strongly implies crafty, underhand dealing: “the devious machinations of CIA operatives” (Christian Science Monitor). Collusion is secret agreement for a fraudulent purpose: If it had not been for collusion between criminals and a few corrupt police officers, the drug ring would have been exposed long ago. Intrigue denotes a complex clandestine scheme; usually it implies selfish, petty actions rather than criminal ends: Political intrigue prevented her from becoming her party's candidate. Cabal refers to a conspiratorial group whose actions usually are directed against a government or political leader: “The cabal against Washington found supporters exclusively in the north” (George Bancroft).
1. A secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end: a. plot
b. scheme c. intrigue d. collusion e. connivance f. cabal
g. machination
in plain English, a deliberate act on her part to do against someone else on purpose, to steal or defraud from them by deliberate planned actions on her part.
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