Opinion ID: 1154942
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Count 2: Conspiracy To Deliver

Text: Although we have never directly addressed the issue of whether the guilty knowledge requirement applies to the crime of conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, our reasoning in Sims dictates that it does not. In concluding there was no guilty knowledge element in intent to deliver, we stated: It is impossible for a person to intend to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance without knowing what he or she is doing. See Sims, 119 Wn.2d at 142. [11] Similarly here, we deem it impossible for people to engage in a conspiracy to deliver cocaine without knowing what they are doing. In order to agree to a plan to deliver cocaine, individuals must necessarily be aware that what they are to deliver is cocaine. Garibay's argument with respect to count 2 therefore also fails.