To be liable for the inchoate crime of solicitation, at what point is solicitation a completed offense?

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To be liable for the inchoate crime of solicitation, at what point is solicitation a completed offense?

The key idea is that solicitation is complete the moment you ask someone to commit a crime, with the intent that they do it. You are liable for solicitation even if the person you solicit refuses, or if the crime cannot actually be completed, or if the person you asked never gets convicted. The act of asking itself creates the offense. So, inciting, urging, or requesting another to commit a crime with the intent they do so is enough to make solicitation a completed offense. Asking someone to commit the crime does not require their agreement to proceed, and it does not require the crime to be carried out or even be possible. (Conspiracy, if it arises, is a separate issue and depends on an agreement between two or more parties.)

The key idea is that solicitation is complete the moment you ask someone to commit a crime, with the intent that they do it. You are liable for solicitation even if the person you solicit refuses, or if the crime cannot actually be completed, or if the person you asked never gets convicted. The act of asking itself creates the offense.

So, inciting, urging, or requesting another to commit a crime with the intent they do so is enough to make solicitation a completed offense. Asking someone to commit the crime does not require their agreement to proceed, and it does not require the crime to be carried out or even be possible. (Conspiracy, if it arises, is a separate issue and depends on an agreement between two or more parties.)

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