2006 New York Code - Criminal Solicitation; No Defense.

 
  § 100.15 Criminal solicitation; no defense.
    It  is  no defense to a prosecution for criminal solicitation that the
  person solicited could not be guilty of the  crime  solicited  owing  to
  criminal  irresponsibility or other legal incapacity or exemption, or to
  unawareness of the criminal nature of the conduct solicited  or  of  the
  defendant's  criminal  purpose or to other factors precluding the mental
  state required for the commission of the crime in question.