KRS 506.070: Incapacity of solicitee or co-conspirator.
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- KRS Chapter 506
(1) It is no defense to a prosecution for criminal solicitation that the person solicited
could not be guilty of the crime solicited because of:
(a) Criminal irresponsibility or other legal incapacity or exemption; or
(b) Unawareness of the criminal nature o f the conduct solicited or of the
defendant's criminal purpose; or
(c) Any other factor precluding the mental state required for the commission of
the crime solicited.
(2) It is no defense to a prosecution for criminal conspiracy that a co -conspirator could
not be guilty of the conspiracy or the crime contemplated by the conspiracy because
of:
(a) Criminal irresponsibility or other legal incapacity or exemption; or
(b) Unawareness of the criminal nature of the conspiracy or the conduct
contemplated by the conspiracy or of the defendant's criminal purpose; or
(c) Any other factor precluding the mental state required for the commission of
the conspiracy or the crime contemplated by the conspiracy.
(3) A defendant cannot be convicted of conspiracy if all of his co -conspirators have
been acquitted or discharged under circumstances amounting to an acquittal.
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