N.Y. Penal Law § 100.15: Criminal solicitation; no defense

§ 100.15 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.