N.Y. PEN Law § 100.20
This is the official text of N.Y. PEN Law § 100.20, part of New York’s Penal Law — defines crimes and punishments in New York.
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Criminal solicitation; exemption
Official statutory text
§ 100.20 Criminal solicitation; exemption.\n A person is not guilty of criminal solicitation when his solicitation\nconstitutes conduct of a kind that is necessarily incidental to the\ncommission of the crime solicited. When under such circumstances the\nsolicitation constitutes an offense other than criminal solicitation\nwhich is related to but separate from the crime solicited, the actor is\nguilty of such related and separate offense only and not of criminal\nsolicitation.\n
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