CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Exceptions re Statements
......Co-Conspirator (Crim.) Admissions
.........Statements After Conspiracy Ends
............When Conspiracy Ends
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Daughter's statements indicating insurance conspiracy between daughter and D to obtain murdered mother's estate, admissible under co-conspirator exception.

Conspiracy to commit murder to collect life ins. proceeds continued after death of Vs, permitting introduction of postmurder hearsay pursuant to coconspirator's exception.

Duration of conspiracy may be flexible, occurring over period of time and changing in response to changed circumstances.

Act committed by conspirators subsequent to completion of crime that was primary object of conspiracy cannot be deemed overt act in furtherance of that conspiracy.

Duration of conspiracy is not tied to particular period of time.

Conspiracy continues until legal completion of intended offense.

Arrest of co-conspirator does not automatically terminate the conspiracy.

Arrest of co-conspirator not withdrawal as matter of law.

Trier of fact determines when conspiracy ended; may continue beyond substantive crime to activities undertaken by conspirators in pursuance of objectives of conspiracy.