People v. Gordon
California Courts of Appeal
120 Cal. Rptr. 840 (1975)
Attorney Donna Gordon (defendant) contacted undercover officer Joseph Stanley, ostensibly with tips about seizable cocaine, but instead asked him to plant some of that seized cocaine on her client's rival to discredit him, offering roughly $10,000 for the task; Stanley pretended to go along, continuing secretly taped discussions with Gordon, until Gordon later told him she had changed her mind, worried the scheme could jeopardize her political ambitions. Gordon was convicted of solicitation of a bribe and appealed.
Whether the crime of solicitation is negated by the solicitor's later change of heart and abandonment of the plan, or by the fact that the solicited crime was never actually carried out.