HRS §705-512
How the crime of asking someone to commit a crime is graded
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section sets the punishment level for criminal solicitation. Generally, the crime is one level lower than the crime that was solicited. But soliciting murder is always a class A felony.
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The statute, as written — Grading of criminal solicitation
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Criminal solicitation is an offense one class or grade, as the case may be, less than the offense solicited; provided that criminal solicitation to commit murder in any degree is a class A felony.
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