RCW 9A.28.030

Criminal solicitation.

Known as the Washington Criminal Code

The act spans §§ 9A.04.010 to 9A.98.020 (401 sections).

Applied in 41 court decisions — leading case 101 Wash. 2d 576 - State v. Shriner (1984)

Most recently applied in State v. Valdiglesias LaValle (September 2023)

2011 c 336 s 356; 1975 1st ex.s. c 260 s 9A.28.030.

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(1) A person is guilty of criminal solicitation when, with intent to promote or facilitate the commission of a crime, he or she offers to give or gives money or other thing of value to another to engage in specific conduct which would constitute such crime or which would establish complicity of such other person in its commission or attempted commission had such crime been attempted or committed.

(2) Criminal solicitation shall be punished in the same manner as criminal attempt under RCW 9A.28.020.

Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.