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Iowa Code § 705.1 (2026)

Solicitation

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1. A person solicits another person to commit a felony or aggravated misdemeanor when the person commands, entreats, or otherwise attempts to persuade the other person to commit a particular felony or aggravated misdemeanor, with the intent that such act be done and under circumstances which corroborates that intent by clear and convincing evidence.

2. A person who solicits another person to commit a felony of any class commits a class “D” felony.

3. A person who solicits another person to commit an aggravated misdemeanor commits an aggravated misdemeanor. [C79, 81, §705.1] 2013 Acts, ch 90, §221 Referred to in §692A.102, 704.11 Solicitation to commit murder, see §707.3A \n

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 34 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1951–2025 · leading case: State v. Pilcher.
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State v. Pilcher (Iowa 1976). · cites it 86× “A Wapello County grand jury had indicted Robert Eugene Pilcher for the crime of sodomy.”
State v. Williams (Iowa 1982). · cites it 18× “The inclusion of this term coincided with the legislature's adoption of the crime of solicitation, § 705.1, The Code. Section 705.1 provides in pertinent part: A person who commands, entreats, or otherwise attempts to persuade another to commit a particular felony or aggravated…”
Robert Allen Barker v. Donald H. Capotosto & Thomas M. Magee (Iowa 2016). · cites it 3× “§ 705.1; id. § 709.4(2)(c)(4). 1 On October 3, Barker entered into a written plea agreement.”
United States v. Steven Petersen (8th Cir. 2017). · cites it 2× “Charges subsequently were filed against Petersen in state court for solicitation to commit an aggravated misdemeanor in violation of Iowa Code § 705.1 (3). Petersen’s probation officer filed a petition to revoke Petersen’s supervised release based on four violations: failure to…”
State v. Clark (Iowa Ct. App. 1987). · cites it 10× “attempts to persuade another to commit a particular felony or misdemeanor, with the intent that such act be done and under circumstances which corroborates that intent by clear and convincing evidence, solicits such other to commit that felony or aggravated misdemeanor.”
State v. Robertson (Iowa 1984). · cites it 8× “This defendant, Evelyn Faye Robertson, appeals her conviction for solicitation to commit a felony, Iowa Code section 705.1, challenging the constitutionality of the solicitation statute on the ground it allows corroboration of intent to be established by evidence less than…”
State v. Anderson (Iowa 2000). · cites it 6× “See Iowa Code § 705.1 (1997). On appeal he raises numerous constitutional, evidentiary, and instructional errors.”
State v. Schurman (Iowa 1973). · cites it 4× “David LeRoy Schurman was charged in one count of a county attorney’s information as amended with the crime of sodomy contrary to section 705.1, The Code. In the second count defendant was charged with the crime of assault to commit a felony, to wit: sodomy, in violation of…”
United States v. Kerwin Lamont Summage (8th Cir. 2007). “" Iowa Code § 705.1 (2003). Iowa’s prostitution statute provides: "A person who sells or offers for sale the person's services as a partner in a sex act, or who purchases or offers to purchase such services, commits an aggravated misdemeanor.”
State v. Jackson (Iowa 1988). · cites it 8× “See Iowa Code § 705.1 . III. Motion for mistrial grounded on 'prosecutor’s alleged reference to defendant’s postarrest silence.”
State v. Kaster (Iowa 1968). · cites it 6× “Pursuant to a county attorney’s information filed May 13, 1966, accusing him of the crime of sodomy in violation of section 705.1 of the 1962 Code of Iowa, defendant pleaded not guilty and the motion of his court-appointed attorney to suppress evidence of alleged admissions was…”
Ray J. Kraklio v. Kent Simmons (Iowa 2018). · cites it 2× “2 As we noted in Barker , The amended count sought to charge an inchoate crime (Iowa has no general attempt statute) by combining Iowa Code section 705.1's general prohibition on soliciting other persons to commit crimes with section 709.”
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