United States v. Recio

After police seized drugs from a truck, the drivers cooperated and continued to the truck's destination to meet Francisco Jimenez Recio and Adrian Lopez-Meza (defendants) as originally planned, delivering the drugs before the defendants were arrested. Convicted of conspiracy to possess and distribute drugs, the defendants won reversal from the Ninth Circuit, which held a conspiracy terminates once the government intervenes and defeats its objective, and found insufficient evidence the defendants joined the conspiracy before that government intervention.