N.Y. Penal Law § 135.75

Current through 2024 NY Law Chapters 1-59 and 61-118
Section 135.75 - Coercion; defense

In any prosecution for coercion committed by instilling in the victim a fear that he or another person would be charged with a crime, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true and that his sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of such threatened charge.

N.Y. Penal Law § 135.75