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2009 Connecticut Code
Title 53a Penal Code
Chapter 952 Penal Code: Offenses
Sec. 53a-192. Coercion: Class A misdemeanor or class D felony.
Sec. 53a-192. Coercion: Class A misdemeanor or class D felony. (a) A person
is guilty of coercion when he compels or induces another person to engage in conduct
which such other person has a legal right to abstain from engaging in, or to abstain from
engaging in conduct in which such other person has a legal right to engage, by means
of instilling in such other person a fear that, if the demand is not complied with, the
actor or another will: (1) Commit any criminal offense; or (2) accuse any person of a
criminal offense; or (3) expose any secret tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to impair any person's credit or business repute; or (4) take or
withhold action as an official, or cause an official to take or withhold action.(b) It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution based on subdivision (2), (3) or (4) of subsection (a) of this section that the actor believed the accusation or secret to be true or the proposed official action justified and that his purpose was limited to compelling the other person to behave in a way reasonably related to the circumstances which were the subject of the accusation, exposure or proposed official action, as by desisting from further misbehavior or making good a wrong done.
(c) Coercion is a class A misdemeanor except, if the threat is to commit a felony, coercion is a class D felony.
(1969, P.A. 828, S. 194; 1971, P.A. 871, S. 48; P.A. 92-260, S. 75.)
History: 1971 act referred simply to coercion rather than to "criminal" coercion in Subsec. (c); P.A. 92-260 made technical changes.
Cited. 240 C. 766.
Cited. 8 CA 351. Cited. 40 CA 1.
Subsec. (a):
Subdiv. (4) cited. 18 CA 694.
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