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2021 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 3 - Inchoate Offenses
§ 18.2-29. Criminal solicitation; penalty

Universal Citation:
VA Code § 18.2-29 (2021)
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Any person who commands, entreats, or otherwise attempts to persuade another person to commit a felony other than murder, shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. Any person age eighteen or older who commands, entreats, or otherwise attempts to persuade another person under age eighteen to commit a felony other than murder, shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony. Any person who commands, entreats, or otherwise attempts to persuade another person to commit a murder is guilty of a felony punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for a term not less than five years or more than forty years.

1975, cc. 14, 15; 1994, cc. 364, 440; 2002, cc. 615, 635.

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