2011 Iowa Code
TITLE XVI CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
SUBTITLE 1 CRIME CONTROL AND CRIMINAL ACTS
CHAPTER 710A HUMAN TRAFFICKING
710A.3 Affirmative defense.
710A.3 Affirmative defense.
It shall be an affirmative defense, in addition to any other affirmative defenses for which the victim might be eligible, to a prosecution for a criminal violation directly related to the defendant s status as a victim of a crime that is a violation of section 710A.2, that the defendant committed the violation under compulsion by another s threat of serious injury, provided that the defendant reasonably believed that such injury was imminent.
2006 Acts, ch 1074, §4
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