N.Y. Penal Law Section 100.15
Criminal solicitation

  • no defense
It is no defense to a prosecution for criminal solicitation that the person solicited could not be guilty of the crime solicited owing to criminal irresponsibility or other legal incapacity or exemption, or to unawareness of the criminal nature of the conduct solicited or of the defendant’s criminal purpose or to other factors precluding the mental state required for the commission of the crime in question.

Source: Section 100.15 — Criminal solicitation; no defense, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PEN/100.­15 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed May 18, 2024).

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Sep. 22, 2014

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