What is true about the solicitation to commit a crime if the solicitee agrees to commit the crime?

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When someone asks another person to commit a crime, that’s solicitation. If the person asked actually agrees to go ahead and commit the crime, there’s now an agreement between two people to commit a criminal act. That agreement creates conspiracy, which is the crime of conspiring with another to commit an unlawful act. Because conspiracy is formed, the original solicitation doesn’t stay as a separate, standalone offense; it merges into the conspiracy. In practical terms, both parties can be charged as conspirators, and the solicitor doesn’t simply retain liability for solicitation alone. The idea that it stays as simple solicitation, or that the crime becomes impossible, or that liability ends for the solicitor, doesn’t fit how the law treats the shift from solicitation to conspiracy.