Commonwealth v. Hacker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 state decisions

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1. “[t]he purpose of the solicitation statute is to hold accountable those who would command, encourage, or request the commission of crimes by others. Clearly, without [the defendant’s] commands, encouragements and requests, there would never have been a crime against [the young girl]. The statute requires proof of such encouragement, but with the intent to accomplish the acts which comprise the crime, not necessarily with intent specific to all the elements of that crime, much less those crimes with elements for which scienter is irrelevant. [The defendant] intentionally encouraged the specific conduct which comprised this crime. The encouragement was with the intent of facilitating or promoting commission of that conduct. That is sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the solicitation statute.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 2012 Pa. Super. 198 - Commonwealth v. Helsel · 2012 Pa. Super. 75 - Commonwealth v. Bricker