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The hitman was a conman for a murder on a fictitious person. While he fully believed he was committing a real assassination, you can't convict people for killing imaginary people.

>>alt187+(OP)
This doesn’t sound like an imaginary person

https://www.vice.com/en/article/murdered-silk-road-employee-...

>>alt187+(OP)
You can convict for murder for hire in that circumstance.

>>croes+L1
I'm not convinced that you looked at the article you linked.

> That’s because he was the Silk Road employee implicated in an elaborate, and fake, murder-for-hire scheme, created in part by a corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent.

>>px43+Ck
The murder was fake not the murder order.

>DPR contacted one of his trusted drug dealer contacts, Nob, and asked him to kill Green for $40,000. Shortly after, Nob sent DPR photos of Green covered in Campbell’s Chicken & Stars soup and victim of an apparent asphyxiation, to prove the murder had been carried out.

> Unbeknown to DPR, Nob was no drug dealer. In fact, Nob was Carl Mark Force IV, the very same DEA agent who had arrested Green.

>>croes+L1
There weee two murder for hire. Look up the story wirh FriendlyChemist.

>>alt187+VN
But does it matter if he ordered a real murder?

The trial for the real one was scrapped because of his other convictions.

>>croes+AO
Both were fake. One was a con by the DEA and the other one a con by a single guy posing as executioner, victim and a slew of other colorful characters.

>>alt187+GV
The DEA murder was fake but not his order of the murder.

The man just didn’t die because the killer was a DEA agent in reality.

That’s still a felony.