506.070 Incapacity of solicitee or co-conspirator.

KY Rev Stat § 506.070 (2019) (N/A)
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506.070 Incapacity of solicitee or co-conspirator. (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 of 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. Effective: January 1, 1975 History: Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 55, efffective January 1, 1975.