ORS § 163.285

Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation effective March 27, 2024
Section 163.285 - Defense to coercion

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

ORS 163.285

1971 c.743 §103