What is the current state of the law on the crime of solicitation?

¹⁷ Oregon courts have gone even further to hold that a person commits the crime of solicitation when the person asks an intermediary to ask a third party to commit a crime, even if the intermediary never communicated with or ultimately procured the third party. See State v. Everett , 249 Or.App. 139, 274 P.3d 297, 301 (2012) ; see also Self , 706 P.2d at 977 (defendant committed solicitation when he asked an individual to help bail out a third party from jail and said that the third party would provide him with cocaine in exchange).