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K.S.A. § 21-5303 (2026)

Criminal solicitation

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21-5303. Criminal solicitation. (a) Criminal solicitation is commanding, encouraging or requesting another person to commit a felony, attempt to commit a felony or aid and abet in the commission or attempted commission of a felony for the purpose of promoting or facilitating the felony.

(b) It is immaterial under subsection (a) that the actor fails to communicate with the person solicited to commit a felony if the person's conduct was designed to effect a communication.

(c) It is an affirmative defense that the actor, after soliciting another person to commit a felony, persuaded that person not to do so or otherwise prevented the commission of the felony, under circumstances manifesting a complete and voluntary renunciation of the actor's criminal purposes.

(d) (1) Criminal solicitation to commit an off-grid felony shall be ranked at nondrug severity level 3. Criminal solicitation to commit any other nondrug felony shall be ranked on the nondrug scale at three severity levels below the appropriate level for the underlying or completed crime. The lowest severity level for criminal solicitation to commit a nondrug felony shall be a severity level 10.

(2) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a violation of criminal solicitation to commit the crime of:

(A) Aggravated human trafficking, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5426(b), and amendments thereto, if the offender is 18 years of age or older and the victim is less than 14 years of age;

(B) terrorism, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5421, and amendments thereto;

(C) illegal use of weapons of mass destruction, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5422, and amendments thereto;

(D) rape, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5503(a)(3), and amendments thereto, if the offender is 18 years of age or older;

(E) aggravated indecent liberties with a child, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5506(b)(3), and amendments thereto, if the offender is 18 years of age or older;

(F) aggravated criminal sodomy, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5504(b)(1) or (2), and amendments thereto, if the offender is 18 years of age or older;

(G) commercial sexual exploitation of a child, as defined in K.S.A. 21-6422, and amendments thereto, if the offender is 18 years of age or older and the victim is less than 14 years of age;

(H) sexual exploitation of a child, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5510(a)(1) or (4), and amendments thereto, if the offender is 18 years of age or older and the child is less than 14 years of age; or

(I) aggravated internet trading in child pornography, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5514(b), and amendments thereto, if the offender is 18 years of age or older and the child is less than 14 years of age.

(e) Criminal solicitation to commit a felony which prescribes a sentence on the drug grid shall reduce the prison term prescribed in the drug grid block for an underlying or completed crime by six months.

History: L. 2010, ch. 136, § 35; L. 2011, ch. 30, § 16; L. 2013, ch. 120, § 13; L. 2017, ch. 78, § 8; July 1.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2020–2025 · leading case: State v. Henderson (Kan. Ct. App. 2020).
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State v. Henderson (Kan. Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 3× “" This language is much more general than the narrow language of the electronic solicitation statute that requires three things: (1) communication of an enticement or solicitation through electronic 27 means; (2) belief that the other individual is a child; and (3) the criminal…”
State v. Johnson-Fritz (Kan. Ct. App. 2022). · cites it 2× “Factual and Procedural Background In January 2021, the State charged Johnson-Fritz with solicitation of capital murder of a KDOC inmate at the Lansing Correctional Facility, a violation of K.S.A. 2018 Supp. 21-5303 and K.S.A. 2018 Supp.”
Tiger v. Cline (10th Cir. 2025). “§ 21-5506 (b)(3)(A)(c)(2)(C)(3), and rape, in violation of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-5303 (a)(3)(b)(2). Tiger was sentenced to two * This order is not binding precedent except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.”
— K.S.A. § 21-5303(a) — 2 cases
State v. Henderson (Kan. Ct. App. 2020). “" This language is much more general than the narrow language of the electronic solicitation statute that requires three things: (1) communication of an enticement or solicitation through electronic 27 means; (2) belief that the other individual is a child; and (3) the criminal…”
State v. Johnson-Fritz (Kan. Ct. App. 2022). “Factual and Procedural Background In January 2021, the State charged Johnson-Fritz with solicitation of capital murder of a KDOC inmate at the Lansing Correctional Facility, a violation of K.S.A. 2018 Supp. 21-5303 and K.S.A. 2018 Supp.”
— K.S.A. § 21-5303(b) — 1 case
State v. Henderson (Kan. Ct. App. 2020). “" This language is much more general than the narrow language of the electronic solicitation statute that requires three things: (1) communication of an enticement or solicitation through electronic 27 means; (2) belief that the other individual is a child; and (3) the criminal…”
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