Del. Code 11, § 792 : Crimes And Criminal Procedure — Specific Offenses — Offenses Against The Person — Coercion; truth and proper motive as a defense

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Current through 2016 Legislative Session, Act 399

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 believed the threatened charge to be true and that the defendant's sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of the threatened charge.

Del. C. § 792
11 Del. C. 1953, § 792; 58 Del. Laws, c. 497, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;
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