NY Penal Law 100.15 – Criminal solicitation; no defense

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.