Whether a joke or a real suggestion there seems to be nothing suggesting it was taken forwards and it isn't like they didn't get chance to go through with somet

Whether a joke or a real suggestion there seems to be nothing suggesting it was taken forwards and it isn't like they didn't get chance to go through with something because the police knocked down the door that minute. Without further evidence of any concrete action I don't see how it could be regarded as an "attempt" at anything. That he was convicted on the basis of that[0] strikes me as a failure of the system (including the prosecutor, the court and the jury) and that hopefully an appeals court would correct the error. [0] Assuming that was the extent of the evidence in this aspect as there may be other evidence of which I am not aware.