{"id":484,"date":"2012-10-18T17:12:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=484"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:49:08","slug":"79-solicitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"79. Solicitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-485\" title=\"Conspiracy17\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy17.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy17-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e572d9252f88000366022' value='69e572d9252f88000366022'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e572d9252f88000366022' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e572d9252f88000366022' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e572d9252f88000366022' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 10: We&#8217;ll All Go Down Together<br \/>Conspiracy pg 17: Solicitation<\/p>\n<p>First, we&#8217;ve got SOLICITATION.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Big Cheese at his desk with his stogie<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the Big Cheese asked me to do the heist, he committed the crime of Solicitation.<\/p>\n<p>Even if I&#8217;d said &#8220;no,&#8221; the Big Cheese would still have been guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The crime of Solicitation occurs when you try to get someone\u00a0<strong>else<\/strong> to commit a crime.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe talking head<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Just as with Attempt, you&#8217;re\u00a0<strong>trying,<\/strong> so the mens rea is\u00a0<strong>intent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(And the ultimate crime never needs to be completed.)<\/p>\n<p>Some jurisdictions punish solicitation as a minor offense only, others with a lesser proportion of what the intended crime would have gotten. Few punish it as severely as the intended crime itself, however.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e572d9252f88000366022' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}