HRS §705-510
Asking someone to commit a crime
This section makes it a crime to ask, encourage, or order someone to commit a crime, if you intend to help make the crime happen. It does not matter if the person you asked never got your message, as long as you tried to send it.
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The statute, as written — Criminal solicitation
(1) A person is guilty of criminal solicitation if, with the intent to promote or facilitate the commission of a crime, the person commands, encourages, or requests another person to engage in conduct or cause the result specified by the definition of an offense or to engage in conduct which would be sufficient to establish complicity in the specified conduct or result. (2) It is immaterial under subsection (1) that the defendant fails to communicate with the person the defendant solicits if the defendant's conduct was designed to effect such communication.
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